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*By Ross Moyo*
Kariba Dam, the world’s largest man made lake will by early next year
Install, Zimbabwe’s first ever floating solar panels supplying 150-megawatt for the project.
According to the Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Winston Chitando and the Ministry of Energy and Power Development,
Zimbabwe plans to install the floating solar panels by early 2025 at the world’s biggest man-made freshwater reservoir.
Permanent Secretary (PS) for energy and power development, Gloria Magombo, confirmed that, “An initial 150 megawatts of solar on the surface of the Kariba Dam will be the start of the project.”
Magombo further said, the private sector has applied to install 600 megawatts.
Zimbabwe does have experts and engineers more than qualified to both supply and install the needed floating solar panels such as Aurora’s Oyako Kanyenze.
Contacted for comment, Mr Oyako Kanyenze confirmed , “they are more than equipped for the task ahead if government calls them up for the job on any given day.”
This comes in handy for Zimbabwe’s electricity supply considering lower dam levels the country recently experienced due to drought culminating in erratic power cuts.Kariba Dam straddles Zimbabwe and Zambia, in Kariba.
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