Both bonds, said EAAIF in a release on December 13, will support CEC Renewables, a unit of Copperbelt Energy Corporation, to increase its total solar generation capacity to 230 MW in Zambia ...

The framework is looking to finance 100 MW of renewable energy projects – the lion’s share of which will be solar – under Zambia’s Renewable Energy Feed-in-Tariff (REFiT) policy.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, Zambia had 96 MW of installed solar power at the end of 2019 and around 95 MW were deployed in that year alone. The country is currently ...

Mr Maumbi said that Zesco was investing in more energy sources, including solar plants, so that dependency on hydro-power falls to around 60%. But Zambia's focus is not only on green energy - coal ...