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Hwange Power station now 65% complete
- The project has a combined capacity of 1520MW
- The station is a $1.5 billion dollar project
The joint venture project of the Zimbabwe Power Company and Sino Hydro Mauritius has recorded a 64.63% completion. The Hwange power station project was commissioned by President Mnangagwa in August 2018.
Despite the impact of the COVID19 pandemic, funding challenges, contractor and manufacturing delays, the project is now in the third phase of completion. The power station will have a combined 1520MW at the completion of the third phase of the project. The first unit of the Hwange station will go live in October this year.
During a tour of the construction site, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works, and National Housing Obadiah Moyo thanked the administration of President Mnangagwa for investing in the project. ”We would want to thank President Mnangagwa for investing such huge amounts of money to this project. Today we were visiting two years after he did ground-breaking and we have seen that work is moving despite the challenges related to delays in releasing finances from Treasury” he said.
Mr. Moyo also promised to dialogue with the Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube on funding challenges. The project was delayed for 258 days due to funding challenges.