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Article: ZAMBIA: CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR PROPOSED $600,000,000 HYDRO POWER STATION, MINISTRY OF ENERGY & WATER DEVELOPMENT [ZAMBIA] - Order #: 02252000.
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- WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Increasing electricity demand has prompted the MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT to undertake the construction of a new hydroelectric power station in Zambia. According to David Saviye, Minister (Energy & Water Development), his country's economic development can only be sustained with adequate hydroelectric power. As a result, the country needs to rehabilitate and build additional power plants.
As things currently stand, only 20% of the nation's population is said to have access to electricity. Hence, with the construction of a new power station down-stream from the existing Kafue Gorge power complex in Lusaka many more ...