Government has commissioned the over 45 kilowatt solar grid mini project at moyo primary school worth 6 million kwacha at in Pemba District of southern province.
The project is expected to benefit 13,500 people directly, connect moyo primary school, moyo mini hospital and 50 other properties which include houses and businesses.
Speaking when he commissioned the power project, energy minister Peter Kapala said this signifies the beginning of the new era as it will add notable social economic transformation to the lives of the people.
Mr. kapala regretted that for a long time now, access to electricity by many Zambians has remained very low with only 8.1 percent of the rural population having access to clean and reliable power.
He has called for public private partnerships and concerted efforts among stakeholders particularly those with empowerment programmes in rural areas in driving the electrification agenda in order to meet the target of ensuring that 51 percent of the rural population has access to power by 2030.
Meanwhile, rea acting Chief Executive Officer Clement Sasa said the provision of electricity in the area will enhance the provision of education and health services to the people.
And World Vision Country Director John Hasse explained that the project was born out of a three year memorandum of understanding signed between world vision and the rural electrification authority to provide electricity to infrastructures where world vision operates in Zambia and to contribute to improved quality of life for the community in the health, education and water sectors.
And southern province minister Cornelius Mweetwa said the commissioning of the solar mini grid project will transform the lives of the people and help public service worker retention.
And Chief Moyo of the Tonga speaking people of Pemba called on pregnant women to take advantage of the mini hospital and access maternal health services and avoid giving birth from their homes.
And someone was saying there was no development in Southern Province? Just keep on commissioning ba katyetye mwenda mwasebwa
Just how could a mere 45 kilowatt solar grid mini project cost 6 million kwacha? This is broad daylights robbery, that kind of money would easily find s 450 kilowatt solar project. This must be investigated.
DEJA Vu
Get over your defeat please 🙂
No One has ever stated the previous government did zero
All the good they did do was eradicated by their misdeeds
Balance it out and see the real picture bro
ECL policies at work
ECL is gone and gone. The problem with his and his minions is that they ransacked the treasury. Such projects should have been everywhere.
Ten such solar power stations would have been built just from the K65 million the police found with Faith Musonda. Why don’t u talk about it? Throwing the PF out of government was still the right decision.
UPND Ministers singing praises about “overpriced” ECL projects.
Zambia enjoys sufficient sunlight the whole year. There are still bottlenecks in the energy sector that hinder other players to come on board. It’s cost effective to build solar power plants especially for target regions that to connect them to the national grid. Take for example areas along the Bottom road, it’ll cost million of Dollars to connect them to the national grid so similar projects must considered. Another example is Chama where Zesco has planned to spend over US$66M just for a power line. It’ll be cheaper and fasted to consider a solar farm. Kapala must move quickly and repeal the Act that declares Zesco as the single buyer of electricity. We can’t always use REA to circumvent that bad Law
A 45 kva solar farm cost about k1 million, would not power more than 15 house so maybe LT has got the KVA wrong
#9 Cosmos I am sure you are right.. remember dies instead denies.
#3 TIKKI what defeat are you talking about. Are mistaking me for Lungu. I don’t remember participating in any competition.
This project was paid for by World Vision, so government didn’t pay 1 Kwacha, the money came from church goers in the USA.
Who needs the costly REA and Zesco …when you can strategically place solar power plants in cut off areas eliminating the need for connecting to the national grid.
The costs dont add up for this power plant …
For those without eyes read properly it’s a world vision project to provide electricity in areas where world vision operates. REA is just a facilitator and it has nothing to do with previous government. If anything it highlights the shortfalls of the previous government whereby they even failed to provide electricity to this school so world vision had to come in.
” And World Vision Country Director John Hasse explained that the project was born out of a three year memorandum of understanding signed between world vision and the rural electrification authority to provide electricity to infrastructures where world vision operates in Zambia and to contribute to improved quality of life for the community in the health, education and water sectors.”