Unit 8 out, power crisis deepens

ZPC awarded contracts worth US$10 million in the third quarter of 2025.

POWER utility Zesa has announced that Unit 8 of Hwange Thermal Power Station, which generates 335 megawatts (MW), has been taken off the grid for statutory maintenance, further compromising the country’s electricity supply. The planned outage, which began on Monday, will last 10 days. Figures from Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), yesterday showed…

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