Electricity output up 40% in Q1
Saturday, July 15, 2023 | 630 Views |
Rumbling on: The Morupule B power station is the country's main baseload plant PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI
Figures released by Statistics Botswana recently indicate that national electricity production reached 890,655-megawatt hours (MWh) in the first three months of the year, compared to 638,501MWh over the corresponding period last year.
The country experienced short-lived supply challenges in the second quarter of the year due to transmission faults on a key line in the northeast.
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