Zimbabwe's electricity generation saw a 20.9% year-on-year increase in the first quarter of 2026, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency ZimStat.
The Index of Electricity Generation TEG rose to 117.2 during this period, up from 97.0 in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The TEG also showed a marginal quarter-on-quarter increase of 0.16% from the fourth quarter of 2025, reaching 117.2 from 117.0. ZimStat compiles this index using administrative data from the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority ZESA, with the first quarter of 2019 serving as the base period.
Hwange Power Station was the primary contributor to this increase, generating 1,647.4 GigaWatt-hours GWh and accounting for 56.3% of the total electricity generated in Zimbabwe during the first quarter.
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