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The national compact signed under Mission 300 commits Harare to reaching every household by 2030, and sets out how far the utility must move to do it. Private distribution and retail licences were due in the first quarter of this year, opening a market ZETDC has held alone.

Shell and Equinor have been targeting a host government agreement on the $42 billion Tanzania LNG project, with first production expected in the early 2030s. The country opened 26 blocks in its first licensing round in more than a decade, and its 2,115MW hydropower plant now supplies four countries.

Green Hybrid Power, a vehicle established by Zimbabwe’s Intensive Energy Users Group, has taken preparatory work as far as a US$4.4 million Afreximbank facility allows. Energy minister July Moyo has said he hopes to close the financing by October, with panels floating on the reservoir alongside the hydro station rather than replacing it.