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4.75. Zimbabwe's electricity mix is based on electricity generation mainly from local coal supplies, hydropower, and imports. (...) The Kariba Dam hydropower plant, with a capacity of 1,050 MW, has been adversely affected by low water levels of the Zambezi River due to drought.

4.76. Several electricity generation projects, both government- and private sector-financed, are in the pipeline. The projects include (...) the Batoka Hydro Electric Power Plant (1,200 MW) (...) the Munyati Solar Plant (100 MW) (...), the Gairezi Mini Hydro Power Plant (30 MW) (...), Gwanda Solar Plant project (100 MW) (...).

Table 4.7 ZPC's generation capacity, as at end-July 2019
Power station; Type; Installed capacity (MW); Available capacity (MW); Available capacity as % of installed capacity (%)
Kariba; Hydro; 1,050; 358; 34

4.77. Incentives for renewable energy generation include duty-free imports of solar panels, inverters, solar lights, solar geysers, energy-saving bulbs and tubes, electrical motors and generators. Import duties on lithium-ion solar batteries were eliminated, with effect from 5 August 2019.

4.79. (...) A feed-in tariff regime for renewable energy was reviewed in 2018, but has not yet been implemented. IPPs have a marginal share in electricity generation, mainly solar and small hydropower projects. (...)

4.86. Fuel prices are controlled by the ZERA under the Petroleum (Petroleum Products Pricing) Regulations, 2018 (S.I. 10 of 2019). (...) The Government collects the following taxes and levies (August 2019): (...) carbon tax collected by the ZIMRA: USD 0.04/L of petrol and USD 0.013/L of diesel; (...)

4.93. Under Zimbabwe's ethanol programme, mandatory blending of petrol was first introduced in 2011, with a 5% blending requirement of ethanol from sugarcane; the ratio currently stands at 20% of ethanol, subject to availability. The company Green Fuel manages about 9,000 ha of sugarcane for ethanol production (about 56 million litres in 2018-19). The company Triangle Sugar produced about 23 million litres of ethanol as a by product of sugar production. The ethanol production is purchased by the registered oil companies, some of which are licensed to do the blending, although the NOIC also carries out blending.

Table 4.8 Business environment affecting manufacturing companies, 2018
Measure (section of TPR report) %; Very negative; Negative; No effect; Positive; Very positive
Environmental requirements (3.3.2); 19; 23; 47; 9; 3

Note: The totals may not add up to 100 because of rounding.

4.118. Limitations on national treatment relate only to tourist guide services, under the Tourism Act. Also, under the Policy on Wildlife of 1999, only locally registered safari operators may obtain wildlife concessions.

2. (...) The fiscal deficit remained manageable and well below its legal limit; public expenditures were refocused from inefficient energy subsidies towards productive infrastructure investments.