Cabinet considered and approved the Roadmap to Electricity SelfSufficiency as presented by the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Edgar Moyo.
Cabinet wishes to inform the nation that the current local generation capacity is 1 280 megawatts (MW) against the current average local demand of about 1 850MW, leaving a deficit of about 400MW.
To cover the deficit, the country is currently importing power in the range of 200500MW.
Regarding measures to resolve the operational challenges, the Government will restructure the power utility company (ZESA); decommission and repurpose the small thermal power stations; contain technical and nontechnical losses and implement various power saving initiatives.
In the medium to long term, the Government will embrace Private Sector led Coal Mining Initiatives and new technologies such as green hydrogen, floating solar panels; battery energy storage systems and funding some of the renewable energy projects dotted around the country in order to increase domestic generation of electricity.
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