Botswana should embrace solar to reduce subsidies, tariffs

Sputtering on: Morupule B is undergoing a major overhaul
Sputtering on: Morupule B is undergoing a major overhaul

As Sub-Saharan solar ambition has scaled up, Botswana has awarded its first ever power generation licences to independent power producers (IPPs) – all three of them coal projects.

Most of the planned power generation is expected to export electricity to Botswana’s neighbours.

Energy & Natural Resource Corporation’s planned 600 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station is expected to export power to South Africa’s Eskom power utility, Zimbabwe’s power utility Zesa and the Southern African Power Pool. Sese Power’s 225MW coal-fired power station is expected to export electricity to mining companies in Zambia.

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