Zimbabwe is only generating one third of its energy needs, hitting businesses and families hard.
Power outages in Zimbabwe - which sometimes go on for 18 hours at a time - have grown more severeIt is after 10 o'clock at night, and Zimbabwe's capital Harare is uncharacteristically dark.Men in overalls sit around a small fire under the moonlight, waiting for the few hours of power so they can work.
Zimbabwe has sunk about $2bn into power generation in the last decade. But the country still struggles with outages. The country is currently producing about 600 megawatts of power against a daily demand of about 2,000MW.Zimbabwe has been allowed to continue generating up to 300MW from Kariba, said Gloria Magombo, the head of the energy ministry. The river authority will review the water levels in early January following the start of the rainy season.In one social media post an unidentified Zimbabwean demonstrates how to iron their clothes without power - by sliding a pot of boiling water across the garment.
The electricity comes at midnight, and by 4am there will be no electricity, she told the BBC. The three different families that share the single home are fighting each other for firewood. "We have not invested when we were supposed to," according to energy expert Victor Utedzi. He founded the solar farm Centragrid, 30km north-west of the capital, and is in the process of expanding it from a 2.5MW to a 25MW plant."A simple PV solar power plant [takes] three to four years [to set up]. Thermal power plants, to plan and raise financing to build, takes about a decade.
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