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Zimbabwe's Hwange Unit 7 Restored To The National Grid

1 year agoSat, 03 Jun 2023 18:52:37 GMT
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Zimbabwe's Hwange Unit 7 Restored To The National Grid

Zimbabwe’s Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 was successfully restored on Monday, adding 300MW to the national output.

Hwange Power Station’s Unit 7 was first synchronised with the system on March 20 before it was taken off the national grid on 11 May for confirmation tests before being put back into operation.

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) announced that the official integration of Unit 7 was confirmed by its contractor, Power China Zimbabwe. Said Power China Zimbabwe, the Chinese company that carried out the installation:

Unit #7 of Hwange Power Plants was officially integrated into the national grid, adding 300MW of electricity to the national grid.

Zimbabwe embarked on the Hwange Power Station expansion project in 2018, with funding primarily coming from China, and the two 300MW units, Units 7 and 8, are being added to the plant. Unit 8 is expected to start power production in October of this year.

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Energy and Power Development Minister, Soda Zhemu confirmed that the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 will add 300MW to the national output, contributing to the 600MW expected from the expansion project before the end of the month. He said:

 It was being run on commissioning tests where they were testing the turbine running capacity, which was successful and also the boiler hydraulics.

What happened is that after running it for the period of the tests, they took it out of the grid in order for technicians to do evaluations before the unit is run on commercial basis.

They have been working on the unit and according to what they had pre-determined at a time when they took it off the grid, the unit was supposed to be tied back to the grid today (Thursday).

We now expect that we will be having a contribution of 600 megawatts that will be coming from the expansion project any time before the end of this month, the 300 megawatts coming on commercial availability and the 300 megawatts from Unit 8 still on commercial test.

The Minister of Energy and Power Development, Soda Zhemu, stated that an additional 600 megawatts will improve power availability in the country. He also stated that Kariba South Power Station was generating more power than it was earlier this year due to increased water allocation. The allocation was made after ZESCO and ZESA met with the Zambezi River Authority, which manages the water resources.

The combined output of the country’s electricity has improved, hovering around 1,200MW, recovering from the lowest point of below 400MW earlier this year.

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39 Comments

· 1 year ago
do I guys really mean kuti achiti kunetsa. I have been telling people kuti rakaitwa on based on the increased output of 1400MW dzatatichiwana this week. you can check on zpc-co-zw ( - = . ).
Zuze · 1 year ago
Are you suggesting ZESA cannot lie on the internet?
· 1 year ago
the math has never lied before, kana kusina magetsi it shows kuti mangani akabuda, that's why I said check it. you can't be reading kuti zesa yanaka iko kwabuda 400MW ka nhy besides isu kuno akubaya for ~2 hrs a days kana abaya that day.
Zindoga · 1 year ago
@Zuze zvemusoro nemazondo kwaZindoga zvabvepi. Vnhu veZANU munonetsa. 43 years muchitaura nhema
Zuze · 1 year ago
With all due respect Mr. Zindoga, unless I am wrong, you may be linked to the Zindoga enterprise in Waterfalls. Thatemprorium serves mazondo akaobviswa neSoda. Secondly if you have followed Zuze comments, you would NEVER associate him with ZANU, The Old People's Home. I thank you.
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Unit 8 now October but they had said this June Then maybe unit 9 and 10 in 2050 kkkkkkk poor planning
Jono · 1 year ago
Exactly ... soda the absentee minister ......too many maybes ... Sunday no zesa yet industry is shut ???? Cummon ....
Bhomora Zvekuti · 1 year ago
Vote CCC u won't have to hear stone age news like this ever again. Zimbabwe will become better and loadshedding will be a thing of the past. ED lied to the nation that there was progress in electricity generation becoz they had discovered a huge coal field. I think that China is taking that coal and also its so sad that we had been buying coal from Botswana for years shaaa
Jojola · 1 year ago
magetsi arikuuya kuti aende
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
While I am thrilled with the progress engineers made at unit 7, I must register my huge disappointment with the progress engineers are doing at unit 8. [ I WILL INSIST THAT CITIZENS MUST NOT VOTE FOR ZANU PF'S GOLD MAFIA CRIMINALS AND MONEY LAUNDERERS ]. A month ago engineers tried to synchronise it, but they failed. Citizens were told that it needed a few touches before it was synchronised. Today, ZESA is telling povo that unit8 may start contributing electricity to the national grid in 5 months time, in October to be precise. Unit 8 suffered from poor workmanship. [ THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC ].
joker · 1 year ago
you Soda are just good at making delele
Zuze · 1 year ago
... nekuibvisa nyama yemusoro nemazondo kwaZindoga (uchizopanza nayo).
wat the heck · 1 year ago
'Power China Zimbabwe'............comment reserved
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Huh ??? Monday .... then Thursday then end of the month .... which month ?????? Still no zesa 18 hrs a day .... what a useless project
Anonymous · 1 year ago
It would be better to keep silent than every week another lie .... now oct for unit 8 ??????????? Proper Chinese
Gets · 1 year ago
Oh so why we still got 15 load shedding ????
thrasher · 1 year ago
residential areas don't really need power that much you are competing with commercial areas for power it only natural to turn off power to those that want to watch tv
cid · 1 year ago
@ analyst,,, Vakuru i think mukataura Shona tozvinzwa than Chi vet chenyu hapana anokurovai. By the way wats 300eatts? and if Yu may explain wat u mean by yo statement "Yu are not a big data"?wen Yu responded to @ big dhara's post.Va Bircabonate Svoda pliz zvema megawatt enyu amukutura isu vamwe hatina kufunda, isu tongoda magetsi. But at least I discovered kune d.o.fo riri worse than Yu avo vakuru vanonzi @ analyst
Pete · 1 year ago
🤣🤣 bicarbonate or cream soda ..... 🤣🤣 ?? Then add Zhing zong. = ****
Miss Jessica · 1 year ago
Chinenge chinodya megetsi pese pachonzi chadzoregwa mugrid magetsi anoenda worse. Zvinhu zvemaZhing Zhang
. · 1 year ago
ZVEHURUMENDE ICHI HAPANA KWAZVINOSVIKA.TOMORROW IT'S ANOTHER STORY WITH A DIFFERENT EXPLANATION..
.... · 1 year ago
The least performer of all ministers kkkkkkk
Zuze · 1 year ago
Ranking E-, bordering on an F, just ahead of El Presidente at U. (for Ungraded)
GG · 1 year ago
analyst is a brainwashed Ediot no wonder the angry rant
analyst · 1 year ago
so what ?you are fôölîsh because load shedding is inconsequential to the running of Unit7. Remember that Unit 7 does not solve all the country's power woes since peak demand is in excess of the 300watts added by Unit 7 It's actually over 2700eatts Do your calculations and stop the îmbècïlïc beerhall talk because you are not really a Big Data after all but a midget
Black Adam ⚡ · 1 year ago
Lol its true i saw it kuti nhasi kune vanhu vari kupenga more than ever. Hazvishamisi kuti vamwe vanga vari kutotaura vega ipapa👏👏👏
Big Dhara Munhu Mukuru · 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣@Analyst I can feel how angry u are. U arent married saka hasha dzako ndedzekuti u always have lonely nights. U are struggling financially becoz of Zanu Pf and u still support it. U remind me of women who are in abusive marriages and they still stay there being beaten and violated. I pity you, one day u will realise that it wasn't worth it, but hey it your choice to defend a government that never plans for the future. Since 2018 and here we are in 2023 same old story.
Big Dhara Munhu Mukuru · 1 year ago
Excuse me THIS is utter rubbish. 😑😑😑 Magetsi ari kuenda every morning kuma 4 achidzoka na 9pm
@analyst · 1 year ago
Adding 300 megawatts should somehow reduce load shedding,m
Sorojena · 1 year ago
Magetsi ange achiuya kuzobata chete only to go early in morning
Zuze · 1 year ago
@analyst, reduce load shedding by 30 minutes?
· 1 year ago
kuno it has drastically improved
me · 1 year ago
Kuno kupi kusina zita? Raamai vako.
· 1 year ago
kuno

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