Shuntai Cement Plant Backs $120 Million Facility With Solar

Shuntai Cement Plant is developing a 50MW solar plant to power its new $120 million manufacturing facility. The company announced that the cement plant will have a production capacity of 6,000 tonnes per day once fully operational. This massive private energy investment highlights the severe electricity deficits plaguing Zimbabwe's industrial sector. Industrialists warn that the state's failure to provide reliable grid power forces heavy manufacturers to build their own expensive generation infrastructure. Shuntai's self-funded solar project underscores how private capital must substitute for failing public utilities to make heavy industrial investments viable in Zimbabwe.