{"id":20788,"date":"2025-12-10T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-government-to-start-building-floating-solar-plant\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:02","slug":"zimbabwe-government-to-start-building-floating-solar-plant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-government-to-start-building-floating-solar-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe government to start building floating solar plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Zimbabwean government says it will start building a floating solar plant on the world&#8217;s largest human-made lake, Lake Kariba.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 600 megawatt floating solar project will be implemented in three phases over a five-year period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The first phase will generate 150 megawatts and is expected to commence during the second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Kariba Floating Solar Plant is also expected to preserve water during the day and ensure long-term sustainability of the Kariba power generation system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zimbabwe shares Lake Kariba with neighbouring Zambia, and approval is needed from both countries for the project to proceed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20789,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-20788","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"The building of a floating solar plant","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24702,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20788\/revisions\/24702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}