{"id":4706,"date":"2026-06-23T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:20:29","slug":"kipemba-solar-project-construction-set-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4706","title":{"rendered":"KIPEMBA SOLAR PROJECT CONSTRUCTION SET FOR NOVEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armitage Environmental Social Consultant, Mwila Kafungwa has disclosed that the construction works on the long-awaited Kipemba Solar Power Project in Solwezi District are expected to commence in November this year following the mobilisation of resources.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kafungwa says the 200-megawatt solar power plant, whose implementation stalled in 2022, is expected to contribute significantly to energy generation and economic development in North-Western Province.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kafungwa disclosed this when a delegation from Armitage paid a courtesy call on North-Western Province Permanent Secretary Grandson Katambi, retired, in Solwezi.<\/p>\n<p>He said the team is currently undertaking stakeholder engagement and planning reviews aimed at understanding community dynamics and assessing any changes in local governance structures before the project commences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armitage Environmental Social Consultant, Mwila Kafungwa has disclosed that the construction works on the long-awaited Kipemba Solar Power Project in Solwezi District are expected to commence in November this year following the mobilisation of resources. Mr Kafungwa says the 200-megawatt solar power plant, whose implementation stalled in 2022, is expected to contribute significantly to energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,13,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsleft","category-business","category-local","category-technology","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}