Zambia’s CEC approves new 40 MW power plant
Copperbelt Energy
Corporation (CEC), Zambia’s main distributor of power to the country’s
mines, has approved the construction of a 40 megawatt hydropower plant
following the completion of a feasibility study, the company said on
Tuesday.
“The final report
has recommended that the project is viable and 40 MW of capacity is
recommended. The detailed site design, tendering and financing process
for the project has commenced,” it said in a statement.
Regular power
outages, partly due to ageing equipment in Zambia, which has had no
major investments to raise power generation for decades, has forced it
to import power from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The power generation project is expected to be commissioned by 2015, the CEC said.
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