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Hydropower

15 Years in the Making: Memory Mashingaidze on the Great Zimbabwe Hydro Project

8th September, 2025 · Updated: 24th November, 2025
Finance

Green Bonds Usher in a New Era for African Energy Finance

The successful placement of green bonds by Zambia’s Copperbelt Energy Corporation widens the pool of capital for sustainable energy projects in Africa In December 2024, amid Zambia’s worst energy crisis in decades, the Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) achieved something unprecedented in African energy finance: the successful issuance of a $150 million, 15-year green bond to […]
Finance

Towera Temba-Nkanza, EY Zambia, on Green Bonds, Carbon Credits, and Why Dialogue Between the Public and Private Sector Needs to be Transparent, Candid and Accountable

Towera Temba-Nkanza is currently Associate Director at EY Zambia, providing strategic advice to clients on cross-border tax issues, managing risk and optimising investment structures.   In the course of her career, Towera has worked on both public and private sector projects, advised on international tax transactions in Africa and the Middle East, and worked on some […]
News

Droughts Raise Doubts over Hydro’s Future Role in Africa

Uncertainties surround the outlook for hydropower in Africa, but new projects of varying sizes continue to gain access to financing across the continent, reports Ben Payton In Zambia and Zimbabwe, electricity has become a precious commodity over the past few months. The two countries have been enduring severe power cuts since late last year. In […]

Zimbabwe Spotlight

Take a look back: aef 2019 Country Spotlight, Zimbabwe
Southern Africa

Take a look back: aef 2019 Country Spotlight, Zimbabwe

Grids

ENGIE Energy Access’ Helen Zulu discusses Mini-Grids, Innovation and Powering Rural Zambia

Energy access

Dr Snowy Khoza: A Passionate Advocate for Energy Access

Leadership

Monie Captan Discusses Petrodex’s Role in Southern Africa’s Energy Transition

Sustainable Energy

Professor Joseph Mutale, ZARENA, on Driving the Transition to Sustainable Energy, Zambia’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), and Innovations in Zambia’s Energy Sector

Podcasts

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Podcast

Can Africa Make Energy Access Bankable at Scale?

Finance
Finance

Africa Doesn’t Just Need More Megawatts. It Needs Smarter Power.

Podcast
Podcast

Can the Zambezi Power Southern Africa’s Next Growth Story?

Gas
Gas

Financing Africa’s Next Growth Cycle

Leaders Spotlight

Marcel Bruhwiler, Infrastructure Manager, East and Southern Africa, IFC
East Africa

Marcel Bruhwiler, Infrastructure Manager, East and Southern Africa, IFC

Léa Giroux, Head of Business Development, ENGIE South Africa
Leadership

Léa Giroux, Head of Business Development, ENGIE South Africa

Anyababa Ikem, Investment Principal, AIIM
Finance

Anyababa Ikem, Investment Principal, AIIM

All Zimbabwe News

Tech & Power Generation

Zambia Tanzania interconnector nears completion as two African power pools prepare to trade

A US$292 million grant is funding the Zambian section of the line that joins the Southern African Power Pool to its East African counterpart. Work on the Tanzanian side was due to finish this year. Once live, Zambia can import in a dry year and export in a wet one.
Mining & Minerals

Zimbabwe ferrochrome smelters face a 2026 captive power deadline with the year half gone

Harare ended subsidised grid tariffs for the sector and required smelters to build their own generation, primarily renewable. Smelting draws 3,500 to 4,000 kilowatt hours a tonne. The requirement arrives alongside a raw mineral export ban that asks the same companies to process more, not less.
Mining & Minerals

Zimbabwe lithium concentrate ban takes effect in January with one sulphate plant complete

Harare requires exports of concentrate to stop on 1 January and has made written commitments on plant timelines a condition of trading until then. Two facilities are still under construction. Producers have asked for the date to move, and the answer will decide who is exporting in February.
Energy access

Zambia electricity consumption rises 48% as mining absorbs the new supply

Installed capacity now stands at 4,576MW, of which 841MW is solar, and Kariba’s usable storage has roughly doubled in a year. Almost all of the additional units drawn last year went to the mines, and Open Access is now the mechanism deciding who is served first.
Energy access

Zimbabwe electricity access target rises to 520,000 connections annually

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.
Solar

Kariba floating solar targets October financial close on a US$400 million package

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.
Southern Africa

Batoka Gorge moves toward formal procurement with $440m of state equity behind it

The Zambezi River Authority held a market sounding session for the 2,400MW scheme at the Africa Energy Forum in June, described as preparation for the formal procurement process. Zambia and Zimbabwe have each committed $220 million from their 2026 budgets, and a second Zambezi scheme is now in prefeasibility behind it.
Solar

Zambia solar programme awards 312MW with councils holding equity in each plant

Five contractors have twelve months to build a 2MW installation with 4MWh of storage in each of 156 constituencies, at a stated ZMW 4.3bn. Permanent Secretary Nicholas Phiri has described the ownership stake as a revenue stream for the local authorities hosting them.