ED commissions Hwange unit 7 and 8
BUSINESS REPORTER
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday officially commissioned the US$1.5bn Hwange Thermal Power Station units 7 and 8 expansion project.
The units have added 600 megawatts (MW) to the national grid with each unit having a net output of 300MW.
“On behalf of the Second Republic and indeed on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe, today we are witnessing the commissioning of unit 7 and 8 here at Hwange.
“The journey began in April 2018 when I visited China and I had a meeting with the President of China , my brother Xi Jinping. In that discussion, I had a list of over 10 projects, which I was shopping for his assistance and he chose to make a political decision to support us.
Energy is a critical enabler for our industrialization and modernization,” President Mnangagwa said.
