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Harare - Zimbabwe's Hwange power station will reach full generation capacity of 750 MW by next June while 90 MW would be produced from a smaller station with help from Botswana to boost output, the energy minister said on Wednesday.
Elias Mudzuri, Minister of Energy and Power Development said four generation units were running at Hwange thermal power plant, but that two more units would come to life in January and June 2010.
"At Hwange we have four units which are producing 450 MW and we have a deficit of 300 MW, so we will be able to produce 750 MW when the fifth unit is running in January and the sixth unit in June," Mudzuri told Reuters.
Mudzuri said Botswana Power Corporation had agreed to invest $8m to restart Bulawayo power station, which has not generated electricity for nearly a decade.
- Reuters
