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Dinson Iron and Steel Company is arranging a loan to Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) to build a 330kV, 100km line to connect the Chinese company’s iron and steel plant in Chivhu to the national grid.

Kibo Energy has extended the deadline for its takeover of the 100MW Chidome Solar PV project (also known as Victoria Falls Solar Park) in Zimbabwe for a second time.

Construction work has begun on two solar PV plants with a combined capacity of 30MW being built for cement manufacturer PPC Zimbabwe. 

The German-backed Nitric Acid Climate Action Group (Nacag) is financing fertiliser manufacturer Sable Chemicals project to design, install and commission nitrous oxide (N20) abatement technology and emissions monitoring equipment at its plants in Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe. Sable has launched a tender with a bid deadline on 14 June.

Dublin-based Kibo Energy’s plan to buy the 100MW Chidome Solar PV project (also known as Victoria Falls Solar Park)  in Zimbabwe from Broomfield International for £10m ($13.1m) is a further step in the company’s campaign to shift from fossil fuel power production into clean energy.

Price volatility following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a huge speculative play on the London Metal Exchange (LME) by China’s Tsingshan Holding Group sent the nickel market spiralling out of control in early March. Prices have since stabilised and are still likely to boost producers’ balance sheets. This could be a double-edged sword for Zimbabwe, which stands to make huge gains from coveted energy minerals, but which is also vulnerable to global market instability

The amount of electricity that households and industrial customers can feed into Zimbabwe’s national grid through net metering has been increased from 100kW to 5MW, following the gazetting on 11 March of amendments to the Electricity (Net Metering) Regulations of 2018.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has approved a build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme to build a 22MW power plant at the Pomona landfill site in the capital Harare, in collaboration with a Dutch developer

ASX-listed Invictus Energy has lined up Baker Hughes and Exalo to work on a planned two-well drilling campaign on the Cabora Bassa project. The Australian indie has raised $8m in recent months to fund the programme, with a potential farm-in partner waiting in the wings.

The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA)’s efforts to rehabilitate the Kariba Dam have suffered delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but the company’s chief executive now says that the project should be completed in early 2025, just a few months later than the previous deadline.

The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes set another new record for the size of its caseload in 2021, with power and energy cases the most significant area of work and disputes involving African countries also prominent.

South Africa’s Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has approved the development of 30MWac of solar PV capacity at two of its sites in Matabeleland. A 10MWac plant will be situated at Coleen Bawn near Gwanda and a 20MWac plant will be built near the Bulawayo quarry.

Platinum miner Zimplats has received a licence from the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to build 185MW of solar PV capacity at two mines. Construction work is now expected to start later this year, once the company’s board has approved a bankable feasibility study for the project.

Centragrid Energy Systems Africa has started work on the second phase of its solar PV plant at Nyabira, 35km west of Harare, which will enlarge capacity from 2.5MW to the full licensed capacity of 25MW. Zimbabwe's biggest solar plant to date has set a new funding precedent.

Zimbabwean agro-industrial company Nhimbe Fresh has announced the completion of work on its 1.9MW solar PV project to supply its estates in Marondera.