{"id":215768,"date":"2025-12-05T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-installed-power-generation-capacity-soars\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:46:23","slug":"zambia-installed-power-generation-capacity-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-installed-power-generation-capacity-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Installed Power Generation Capacity Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">ZAMBIA&#8217;s national installed electricity generation capacity soared to 3,871.32 Megawatt (MW) in 2024 from 3,811.32 MW in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to the Ministry of Energy, the growth was driven by additional capacity from solar power plants like the Kitwe solar plants by the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) which expanded from 34 MW in 2023 to 94 MW in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Amid the power deficit, this was a great improvement from 2022 when, according to Zesco, the country&#8217;s installed power generation capacity was at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050104.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMBIA&#8217;s national installed electricity generation capacity soared to 3,871.32 Megawatt (MW) in 2024 from 3,811.32 MW in 2023. According to the Ministry of Energy, the growth was driven by additional capacity from solar power plants like the Kitwe solar plants by the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) which expanded from 34 MW in 2023 to 94 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6796,11607,23473,257,7047,9029,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-215768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capacity","tag-generation","tag-installed","tag-news","tag-power","tag-soars","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}