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Kanona Power

Kanona Power Company Limited (Kanona) is a power trading and aggregation company headquartered in Lusaka and operating across eight countries in Southern Africa. Kanona specialises in optimising power, cross-border trading, and smart sourcing, delivering firm, uninterrupted baseload electricity to mines and large industrial users.

Kanona structures diversified regional supply portfolios, ensuring competitive pricing, and reliability-backed energy solutions tailored to high-demand customers.

A member of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), Kanona actively trades across regional platforms, leveraging cross-border interconnections and market mechanisms to enhance supply security and optimise cost structures.

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Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit news

Leadership

Deputy Energy Minister Yeukai Simbanegavi opens ZimZam with a target to end Zimbabwe’s power imports by 2027

Opening the third Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit in Livingstone, Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Power Development, Yeukai Simbanegavi, set a target to end power imports by the end of 2027, resting on 1,365MW of private generation in the pipeline and licensing reforms that have cut the application fee for a generation licence to US$20.
Wind

Zimbabwe’s first utility-scale wind farm is planned as a 228MW hybrid at Guruve-Mazowe

Modaso Energy, part of MISA Group, and Zimbabwean developer Tatanga Energy announced at the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit that they will develop the Guruve-Mazowe Hybrid Renewable Energy project in Mashonaland Central, pairing 128MW of wind with solar and battery storage behind one 100MW grid connection, with ZESA set as its main buyer.
Mining & Minerals

Caledonia’s Blanket Mine plans a 132kV grid link as power reliability outweighs cost

Mzi Chizura, Business Improvement Manager at Caledonia Holdings Zimbabwe, tells ENN’s Let’s Talk Energy podcast why reliable electricity matters more to a mine than its price, and how Caledonia is building a steadier supply for Blanket Mine around solar generation and a new connection to the national grid.
Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: WIMIN’s Janet Adeyemi wants Nigerian women to own a stake in the mine-to-market chain

ENN’s Women’s Voices series puts the same three questions to women making the decisions in Nigerian energy and mining. Janet Adeyemi, National President of Women in Mining Nigeria, answers from the experience of more than 3,000 women in the sector, telling ENN why investors should see them as partners across Nigeria’s minerals value chain.
Oil & Gas

Africa Energy Bank formally established in Abuja with $5bn of authorised capital

Afreximbank and the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation formally established the Africa Energy Bank at its inaugural general meeting in Abuja on 31 October, appointing Helmy Ghazi as its first president and constituting a board for a lender that will finance the energy value chain from exploration to distribution.
Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: AEDC wants investors in Abuja’s first waste-to-power plant, says Chijioke Okwuokenye

Engr. Chijioke Okwuokenye, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc, on the waste-to-power plant AEDC has begun discussing with the Federal Capital Development Authority and its plan to close its metering gap by the first quarter of 2028, as demand around Abuja grows faster than the network built to carry it.
Thought Leadership

Why Zambia is like the ‘belle of the ball’ among energy investors

Bwalya Chilufya-Musonda, Partner at Bowmans Zambia, on why private investors are turning to Zambia’s power sector, as the National Energy Compact sets out $11.9bn of generation and transmission investment to 2030, with $9.5bn expected from the private sector and installed capacity planned to more than double to 10,000MW.
Interviews

Exclusive: Copperbelt Energy on building 136MW of solar without a sovereign guarantee

Owen Silavwe, Managing Director of Copperbelt Energy Corporation, on financing Zambia’s largest solar plant through CEC’s own green bond and on the cross-border trade it sees with the DRC, as the company hosts investors in Livingstone as Country Host of the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit.

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