Zimbabwe’s leading cement manufacturing company Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Zimbabwe has set to build two solar power plants with a combined capacity of 30 megawatts (MW) in Colleen Bawn and Bulawayo to enhance power supply to its factories.
The solar projects were expected to commence in the first quarter next year and also expected to take 18 months to complete.
The cement manufacturing giant continued to engage the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company ZETDC to address the incessant power challenges.
Speaking at a press conference held in Harare recently, PPC Zimbabwe managing director Mr Albert Sigei said while they continue to engage the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) over improved electricity supply, his organisation was also making frantic efforts to build two solar plants in Colleen Bawn and Bulawayo.
“we are also accelerating our 20MW and 10MW solar projects at Colleen Bawn and Bulawayo factory under a Power Purchase Agreement model,” Mr Sigei said.
The cement producer, PPC continues to play a significant role in uplifting the living standards of the country’s citizens through infrastructural development projects that include roads, housing, and dam construction in line with the objectives of Vision 2030 where the country aims to attain an upper middle-income society underpinned by the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS 1).
