Water levels behind Zimbabwe’s main hydropower dam, which produces nearly 70% of the nation’s electricity, have dropped too low to reliably generate power, triggering a severe energy crisis.
Normally, the Murahwa Green Market here in this small city near the border with Mozambique bustles with welders, carpenters, and mechanics selling their services. But the market has been deathly quiet in recent weeks, as a prolonged drought has plunged Zimbabwe into a severe energy crisis.
In recent years, dramatic year-to-year swings in precipitation have been increasing, contributing to power crises in a number of countries and making hydropower “less attractive as a reliable electricity source,” says Sebastian Sterl, an energy meteorologist at the Free University of Brussels who has
Several recent studies have highlighted both the possibilities and obstacles. In one, a research team based at Galgotias University found Zimbabwe added some 700 biogas systems, known as digesters, in 2021. Overall, however,
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