Government touts green energy

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ZIMBABWE’S Energy ministry has urged investment in renewable energy saying the country’s current power generation mix between fossils and renewables is not optimal.
Even though generation has continuously increased over the past few years, the global energy mix is still dominated by coal, oil and gas.
Secretary for energy and power development, Gloria Magombo, recently told The Financial Gazette that there was a need for the country to ramp up efforts to develop the clean energy sector.
“Our current energy mix is sitting at almost 50-50 percent renewables, especially when we look at large hydro because we are going to have 2000 Megawatts (MW) of available capacity soon, which is the 600 MW from the new capacity that is coming in,” she said.