Zimbabwe: Coal-Bed Methane Can Fire Up Development

5 August 2020
editorial

Zimbabwe needs more energy, especially electrical energy, first to catch up on all the power stations we never built and then to have extra in hand so the economy can grow swiftly without farmers, miners and industrialists continually complaining about inadequate power infrastructure.

And if we are to achieve the Vision 2030 goal of a middle-income economy, we are not going to do this if everyone is sitting in the dark. Assured supplies of electric power is a basic requirement, and the more sources we have the better, so we can cope with things like Angolan droughts cutting output at Kariba or a major coal mine running into problems.

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