Zimbabwe: Collective Effort On Renewable Energy

The business community has been urged to invest in solar energy and use net metering to sell excess power into the national grid, thus reducing its dependence on Zesa. This is critical in the face of climate-driven load shedding and sales will cover some of the costs of solar investment.

Kariba South Power Station is operating at around 12 percent of its maximum output and less than a sixth of what would be average in an normal year, following two years of well-below average rainfall in south-east…