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Maria Chiguvari
POWER Giants Africa has joined forces with GNEE China to provide smart energy solutions which will mostly target rural areas and industries.
The partnership aims to create a billion-dollar solar project to resolve Zimbabwe’s chronic power deficit. Power Giants CEO, Engineer Edzai Kachirekwa, said the partnership is poised to significantly impact the country’s energy landscape.
“This partnership will provide a solution to the power problems in the country. We will have plants in all provinces, rendering Hwange and Kariba power stations redundant for emergency use only.
“The model formulation attempts to strike a reasonable balance between the technical rigor of a network model and computational tractability.”
GNEE CEO, Wan Ke (left) and Dr Edzai Kachirekwa
Dr Kachirekwa added:
“Transmission is a key enabler of clean generation as the Lines and Substation need to be built first to encourage investments in generation. However, there has been a limited attention to readying the grid through upgrades of existing transmission lines and substation and expansion of the Grid.
“As a result, transmission has become a major bottleneck, not only in developing countries, but also in their developed counterparts, including countries like the western nations which has seen accumulation of 930 Gigawatts of clean generation ‘queued up’ waiting for transmission to be built.
“To prioritise upgrading and expansion of the transmission grid, there is a need to adopt a more holistic system wide view from a long-term perspective and develop a methodology as an enabler of clean generation. Such a methodology can be devised around a composite generation- transmission cooptimisation model.
“This idea sets the context within which, ‘Green Transmission’ needs to be viewed and further proposes a modelling framework that brings together the critical elements in generation and transmission planning, including system security constraints as a mixed-integer linear programming problem.”
Dr Mushamba(left) and Dr Edzai Kachirekwa (Right)
GNEE CEO, Wan Ke, believes that the project will resolve Zimbabwe’s power crisis, which has plagued the country for years.
“We will apply China’s most advanced solar products and technologies to the solar power generation project in Zimbabwe and use our best project management team and construction team to ensure that the project will be put into operation as soon as possible, ensure that the quality of the project meets the design requirements and the requirements of the owner so that the owner can get income early, and more income, and do our best to ease the power shortage in Zimbabwe as soon as possible,” Wan Ke said.
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