By Daniel Itai, Hwange, Zimbabwe.
(News of The South) – Expansion of Zimbabwe’s largest thermal power station now stands at 25 percent with the full expansion expected to be completed by 2022.
The US$1.6 billion Hwange power thermal expansion is expected to increase the power station’s electricity output from 920MW to 1 520MW.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the Hwange power station expansion was held in June 2018, while the main construction works were started in March 2019.
The power station is expected to generate more than 60 percent of Zimbabwe’s electricity needs following the expansion.
“We have completed all the excavations up to the foundation level for Hwange 7 and 8 coal-fired generating units.
Our current progress is at around 25 percent and we are on target in terms of what we had planned to achieve, we are currently on schedule,” read a statement issued out by the Zimbabwe Power Company.
The Hwange thermal power station, which already has six coal-fired generating units, is being expanded with two additional coal-fired units of 300MW capacity each.
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