Zambia launches 100 MW solar plant supplying First Quantum Minerals

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema on Monday opened the country’s biggest grid-connected solar power plant, built by PowerChina, which will supply electricity to copper miner First Quantum Minerals. The 100 megawatt Chisamba project is expected to reduce the Southern African country’s reliance on electricity imports from neighbours South Africa and Mozambique.