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Zimbabwe faces shortages in power supply reliant on coal and rainfall-dependent hydropower. [File, Standard]
An Australian energy group that has made significant gas discoveries in Zimbabwe is setting up a pilot project for the country's first own gas-to-power supply that would potentially extend into electricity-hungry southern Africa.
The project could transform energy security in resource-rich Zimbabwe, which is developing its mining sector and has faced shortages in a power supply reliant on coal and rainfall-dependent hydropower.
A government report published last year, drawing on World Bank data, estimated those shortages cost the economy 6.1 percent of GDP in 2022, driven by both generation inefficiencies and network losses.
