World’s Biggest Dam Needs Rain to Send Power to Zambia Mines
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Energy-use curbs by Zambia will keep its largest electricity plant at the world’s biggest dam, Lake Kariba, going until November, when seasonal rains may begin replenishing water levels at the hydropower station.
“If we don’t do anything right now, by October we’ll have nothing,” Jackson Sikamo, president at the Chamber of Mines, which represents mining companies in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, said by phone Thursday. “If we do something right now, we’ll be able to run up to November and then the rains will come and we’ll be able to continue to operate at reduced levels.”