Zimbabwe to implement key regional power inter-connector project in 2018
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) said it would start working on its component of the regional Zimbabwe-Zambian-Botswana-Namibia (Zizabona) electricity inter-connector project early in 2018.
The announcement came shortly after the country received a $33-million grant form the African Development Bank to fund preinstallation works ahead of setting up additional power transmission infrastructure on the North-South corridor of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). The power corridor links Zimbabwe to South Africa.
The upgrading programme includes the building of new transmission systems that will also add up to 400 KV on the Western corridor, and enable the streamlining of up to 600 MW of electricity, soon to be generated from expanded power stations in Zambia and Zimbabwe to Botswana and Namibia.
Addressing a SAPP stakeholders meeting held in the Zimbabwe coal-mining town of Hwange on Friday, ZETDC systems development manager engineer Ikhupuleng Dube said Zimbabwe was under pressure for implementation because it hosted three major components of the Zizabona project.
“For component A, it is a 100 km line running from Hwange up to the border with Zambia. But there is even a longer one which runs through Zambian territory to Namibia, but that is in component C, which is going to be developed after component A. The other Zimbabwean component is a line which runs from Victoria Falls through Pandamatenga (to Botswana),” Dube said.
The $220-million project, which was mooted ten years ago, had repeatedly failed to take off owing to disagreements among member states regarding the implementation of the plan. At least 65 families would be displaced to make way for the regional power infrastructure upgrade project.
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