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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.

Ever Great Energy is developing the plant with majority partner Wonderful Group Services, and the Singapore contractor Ziquan Group holds the turnkey construction scope. A second phase would take capacity to 600MW within five years of the first being completed. ZCCM-IH says it is engaging with the relevant authorities.

The lake stood at 482.15m in late June, holding 48 per cent of usable storage against 23 per cent a year earlier. The Zambezi River Authority has revised this year's water for power upward to 36 billion cubic metres, shared equally between ZESCO and the Zimbabwe Power Company.

The 2024 Electricity (Open Access) Regulations let private intermediaries sell directly to customers for a wheeling fee, and roughly a quarter of trades on the regional exchange are no longer long-term bilateral contracts. Stanbic is preparing a procurement programme that aggregates demand across several mining offtakers.

ZESA puts private construction in progress at 635MW, with a further 730MW closing its financing. The utility is targeting an end to imports and load shedding by the close of next year, on a system where dependable capacity has run below peak demand.

TotalEnergies is targeting a final investment decision on the Orange Basin discovery by late 2026, having moved it once from late 2025. Revised projections put output around 150,000 barrels a day, and the reservoir's gas content is among the reasons the timetable slipped.

Four bids totalling around 2,800MW were submitted against a 2,000MW target when the window closed on 29 May. IPP Office head Precious Edward has said the programme remains on the timeline communicated to the market, which put preferred bidders roughly three months after close.

Luanda has selected Société Maghrébine de Génie Civil to build and operate a line connecting Angola to the Southern African Power Pool, the first private transmission investment since Angola amended its general electricity law in January. Around 2GW would run toward the Copperbelt mining corridor rather than to Kinshasa.