Zimbabwe's Power Plants Generating 324MW In Total
2 years agoTue, 28 Feb 2023 21:11:00 GMT
Zimbabwe’s thermal power generation dropped significantly on Tuesday 28 February 2023, with Hwange Thermal Power Station producing only 74 megawatts (MW) against the 920MW installed capacity.
The three small thermal stations – Bulawayo, Harare, and Munyati had zero output.
Hwange Power Station is the largest coal-fired power station in Zimbabwe with 920MW installed capacity which comprises 4x120MW and 2×220 MW units.
According to power generation figures from the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), Hwange Thermal Station production levels fell to 74MW. As a result, households are going for more than 16 hours without power.
Kariba South Hydropower Station was producing 250MW due to low water levels in the dam. The power plant has 1 050MW installed capacity.
Meanwhile, Hwange Power Station has been prone to breakdowns as most of its units are old.
On Monday 27 February, Hwange generated 75MW down from 168MW and 139 MW on Friday and Thursday last week respectively.
Early in the month, Hwange alone contributed about 384MW to the national grid.
Hwange units 7 and 8 are each expected to feed 300MW into the national grid when completed. It is not known when the two units will come on stream.
According to reports, Zimbabwe has a peak electricity demand of 1 600MW.
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Hrerd · 2 years ago
ZANU 🚮🚮
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Zanu PF will run down each abd evry sector of the country ...clueless buffoons
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Zanu pf supporters vachirikuti these are sanctions but itx just incompetence
· 2 years ago
We are cursed and in this situation because of zanupf supporters, they are to blame for making the people to suffer.
Kinzhal · 2 years ago
Zimbabwe we are still far from reality coz if you take a look at countries that run heavy industry like Russia they produce more than 1.5 billion MW a year...that means if we are serious of making progress we need at least 1 million MW but we can't even reach a thousand.
Jah 🦓 Tsvarie-07 · 2 years ago
Promises and lies will expose GATA coz what's happening is the very opposite of what he told us since 2018 😀
look at the number of employees at Zesa and what we are generating and see if they will get paid enough month-end..
Mutsa Washe · 2 years ago
Zimbabwe dai ari murwere taiti ma doctor haasi kuona chirwere asi munhu achirwara ngatimbofambai. Unotoshaya chii panyika ino. Simple things giving pple headache
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Is it zesa that lied or pindula jst gt unreliable/biased sources!!!
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Its Pindula who have unreliable/biased sources!
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Hoyo!!! · 2 years ago
wese achavhotera zanu. Mai vakono
Doug · 2 years ago
We are still getting most, if not all our electricity from equipment inherited from Ian Smith and the British. The old equipment from the 1950s is much much more reliable than what we got our friends to build for us. If equipment from the 50s installed by the "colonizers" is still serving us, does it mean that we and our friends do not really know what is suitable for us, or, maybe, our friend thinks our relationship will be very close as we will always be interacting at the breakdowns?
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Hee obsolete obsolete kudii handiti if the proper accounting for operation is closely monitored there is ka a provisional budget allocated to dilapidating machinery to cushion changes imploy ka technology iriko ka iyi
Zvino Ana kiya kiya ava no insight of the future
loe · 2 years ago
why did they lie kuti hee magetsi aako and things will be better vachiziva havo kuti it has gotten from being bad to worse.....#ed must resign
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Zesa has failed dismally zvadhakwa izvi
interested · 2 years ago
looking for faki9 numbers still need him toda kuita zvinhu zvedu tichionanaka paye kwete murima faki9 batika bhururu
interested · 2 years ago
ikozvino mvura ichirikunaya we are having zesa problems ko kuzoti mvura isisanaye 🙆🤷we are going nowhere tichaguma tomawana one a month kwatirikuenda nezanu irima rega rega zesa nezanu vanhu vakuzvitungamira siyai zvigaro
Ashley Scott · 2 years ago
everything that has a z it's a disgrace to the fullest look zesa now...we have every reason to have leadership renewal coz this people have failed us if August this pple wins we are doomed magetsi anongouya usiku bedzi it's a shame urimurume kwaye you must resign wopa vanozvigona
at anonymous · 2 years ago
Zvekuti vawanepi news dzavo zvinei newe kana waziva wozodii mind your own business
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Exactly two weeks ago it was a different story. 700MW between Zam and Zimbawe at Kariba now you are saying on our own we are totalling 324 when we combine all power generation plants. Pindula munowanepi news dzenyu?
AdRyan · 2 years ago
gona kubatanidza zvinhu , d u ask pindula izvozvo or u ask ZETDC who are actually giving those figures.and electricity generation is not static.🔝📈
uGatsheni boya beNyathi · 2 years ago
this is not coincidence
we have ED as the head of the state Zim is in trouble
we have Mlotshwa,ED son in law as SRC boss we know ZIFA is struggling
we have Gata at Zesa ED son in law the troubles at Zesa are legendary
Fish yatanga kuora nekumusoro
Vaye vaye · 2 years ago
if this was a normal country someone would have to resign coz this is gross failure but being Zim munhu haatombonyare anenge achitoti ndikuona basa we r doomed my people 🤦🤦🤦🤦
Halloween · 2 years ago
Zesa failing to provide regardless of being the best paying in salaries
Ratti Capone · 2 years ago
Hapana kwatiri kuenda zvedu nothing is tangible with this state of affairs
zelensky · 2 years ago
change like zambia
· 2 years ago
Zesa like zanupf is a disgrace. Shame, we need new leaders in both zanupf and zesa.
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Mwana waChief Mtekedza · 2 years ago
problem inotangira pakutoti Zesa Z stands for Zanu saka hapana kwatiri kuenda
z€ · 2 years ago
ZESA 🚮🚮🚮
Miss Jessica · 2 years ago
Someone is not doing their job. It's getting out of hand now
Big Dhara Munhu Mukuru · 2 years ago
@Miss Jessica You see right there that's why people will vote for Chamisa in numbers. They can't take it anymore waking up at 11pm to iron clothes and school uniforms. You said ED is working on it, i told u that it was a bad move to call those in the diaspora back to experience a powerless nation ivo vatori kunyika dzine magetsi 24/7
Brezhnev · 2 years ago
zesa from the look of things power outage will not easy anytime soon.You are only talking of problems not solutions.In one of your statements you assured the nation that February will see the nation kissing goodbye to power glitches you have proved to be a liar.Hamuzvigoni vakomana taurai kuti zvarema
Jack Bauer · 2 years ago
Cry my beloved zimbabwe
