Load shedding to intensify — ZESA

Load shedding to intensify — ZESA   26/6/2019 The Herald Business Reporter Power utility, Zesa Holdings, has announced that it will implement load shedding outside the official schedule following a breakdown at Hwange Power Station. “Due to a technical fault at Hwange Power Station, local generation is now depressed,” Fullard Gwasira, the spokesperson of Zesa …

Off-grid solutions to power crisis

Off-grid solutions to power crisis   25/6/2019 The Herald Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor With the country’s main power utility, Zesa, struggling to provide adequate connections to growing demand in both rural and urban areas, Zimbabwe should push aggressively for new off-grid solutions to help the country achieve universal access to sustainable energy …

Zimplats to build 160MW solar farm

Zimplats to build 160MW solar farm   24/6/2019 The Herald Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter Zimbabwe’s largest platinum group metals (PGMs) producer, Zimplats Holdings, says it is interrogating the feasibility of constructing a 160 megawatts solar power plant to guarantee uninterrupted and affordable power supplies to the group’s operations. South Africa’s Impala Platinum (Implats) subsidiary …

Fatcats choke Zesa: Chasi

Fatcats choke Zesa: Chasi – NewsDay Zimbabwe   19/6/2019 Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi yesterday said power utility Zesa was struggling to service its external debt and increase power importation to alleviate the current electricity crisis. BY XOLISANI NCUBE/FARAI MATIASHE Responding to questions at a post-Cabinet Press briefing last night, Chasi said Zesa …

Power cuts threaten irrigation farming in Zaka

Power cuts threaten irrigation farming in Zaka   19/6/2019 The Herald Sydney Mubaiwa Masvingo Correspondent Smallholder farmers here are concerned with intermittent power cuts and high electricity bills they owe the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), which is likely to affect both the winter wheat and maize crops. The farmers said yesterday that …

Cabinet tackles load shedding. . .Minister urges Zesa debtors to pay up

Cabinet tackles load shedding. . .Minister urges Zesa debtors to pay up   19/6/2019 Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi (right) addresses members of the media while post-Cabinet briefing chairperson and Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa and Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira look on …