President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned the Kariba
South Hydro Power Station expansion project today.
The $533 million energy expansion project will add two more
units or generators with a capacity to generate 150 megawatts each.
While commissioning Kariba South Hydro Power Station
expansion project, President Mnangagwa said he is extremely and pleasantly
surprised and grateful for seeing the actualisation of a concept which started
in a room in Harare.
President Mnangagwa described the project as a major
milestone for the country.
“The Kariba South Hydro Power Expansion Project is a great
wonder and it tells of what we can achieve as a government in collaboration
with the domestic institutions as well as the importation and collaboration
with our partners in order to access technology from friends for the
development of the country,” he said.
The President said
the completion of the energy project will go a long way in the deduction of
foreign importation of energy.
“I am so happy that this has now been achieved. From the
moment I cut that ribbon, I am informed that we now have 30 megawatts of power
generation transmitted into our national grid,” he said.
He also said this is the state of the art engineering and
technology worldwide which is now resident in the country at the Nyaminyami
adding that he has no doubt that the people of Zimbabwe or engineers and
technicians will definitely look after this asset and maintain it for the good
of the country.
Zimbabwe had been experiencing power shortages with a
deficit of up to 600 megawatts which were being sourced from regional power
utilities which include Eskom of South Africa, Caho-bassa of Mozambique and
SNEL of DRC, forcing the nation to spend between $7 million and $10 million
weekly.
The Kariba South expansion programme is part of
government’s infrastructure and utilities cluster under ZIM ASSET.
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