All set for commissioning of new generator to boost Zimbabwe's power supplies


  • World
  • Monday, 20 Mar 2023

HARARE, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's power utility, ZESA Holdings, will start synchronizing into the national grid the first of two generators being installed by a Chinese firm at Hwange Thermal Power Station Monday, in a move that will ease power shortages in the country.

The 300-MW unit is part of two generators making up the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 and 8 Expansion Project being undertaken by Sinohydro under a facility from China Eximbank.

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