Local solar generation hits historic figures

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Shining brighter: Solar generation reached a record peak in the first quarter PIC: INDIAMART.COM

Investments in renewable sources of electricity are bearing fruit as the country’s solar-generated power in the first quarter of the year was more than five times higher than the same period in 2025, BusinessWeek has learnt.

According to Statistics Botswana figures, in the first quarter, electricity generation figures show that solar plants produced 82,519.96 megawatt hours (MWh), accounting for 9.1 percent of total domestic electricity generation.

The output marks a sharp increase from the 16,713MWh generated in the corresponding quarter of 2025, when solar contributed just 3.2 percent of local electricity production. This happened as the country onboarded solar power into the main grid from private generation sites selling to BPC.

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