State-owned energy utility Zesco has kicked off the primary stage of an engineering, procurement and building (EPC) tender for a 7.5 MW photo voltaic plant in Lusaka province, Zambia. The deadline for expressions of curiosity is Feb. 16, 2024.

Zesco has opened a young for an EPC contract for a 7.5 MW on-grid photo voltaic plant. The deadline for expressions of curiosity is Feb. 16, 2024.

The plant might be in-built Kasupe, Lusaka province. Zesco owns 35 hectares of unused land in Kasupe, which have been put aside for the event of renewable vitality initiatives.

In line with the tender commercial, Zesco desires to develop smaller distributed PV crops to assist the nation harness renewable sources of vitality, obtain diversification, and improve the vitality combine. The utility’s web site says it plans to extend its energy era combine with a minimal of 1,800 MW of renewable vitality over the following 10 years.

Figures from the Worldwide Renewable Power Company (IRENA) present that Zambia had 96 MW of put in solar energy on the finish of 2021. The federal government beforehand set a goal of deploying 500 MW of photo voltaic by 2023, with the intention to ease persistent energy shortages.

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