ZESCO Limited has planned to invest USD 6.4 billion in project development across its operations to include power generation, transmission, distribution, and supply. The investment is projected for the period 2023 to 2031. The financing will be through debt and equity and complemented by Special Purpose Vehicles and Public Private Partnership model.
Zambia has 3, 493 Mega Watts of installed power generation capacity as of 2022. Eighty Six percent (86%) of the national generation capacity was hydro based and the balance Fourteen percent (14%) was a mixture of thermal, heavy fuel oil and solar Photovoltaic (PV) generation.
The predominance of hydro based electricity opens the country to the risk of weather fluctuations, which have become more common owing to climate change.
Zambia's installed generation capacity is owned by various players in the Electricity Supply Industry, eight one percent (81%) is owned by ZESCO Limited and its subsidiaries. The balance of Nineteen percent (19%) is owned by Independent Power Producers. To exploit the energy spectrum potential, ZESCO Limited intends to invest in hydropower plants and alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind, geothermal and biogas to improve its energy mix and build climate change resilience.
Furthermore, ZESCO will also seek to increase its capacity of interconnections through projects such as ZIZABONA and Zambia–Tanzania–Kenya (ZTK) lines which will connect the Southern African Power Pool to the Eastern Africa Power Pool.
FibreCom services are available in all 10 provincial centers and the surrounding districts of Zambia. It is the only network with the widest coverage of optic fibre in the country. FibreCom offers direct interconnections with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania enabling digital traffic to these countries and beyond through the submarine cables that connect Africa to the rest of the world.
FibreCom is strategically positioned in ZESCO to provide mission critical services of power grid protection and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), but also advance the deployment of ICT in the country through the provision of the backbone network to other service providers
FibreCom offers reliable broadband services for high speed data, voice and video communication that meet the requirements of modern day technology and the business environment
FibreCom Offices, GreenCity Offices, Kelvin Siwale Road., Lusaka, Zambia, P.O. Box 33304, Lusaka
| Report Year | Title | Download File |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2015 | Download |
| 2016 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2016 | Download |
| 2017 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2017 | Download |
| 2018 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2018 | Download |
| 2019 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2019 | Download |
| 2020 | ZESCO Integrated Report 2020 | Download |