Africa, China & GCM8 May 2020 21:20
With reference to China and coal, I tend the view the aggressive rhetoric which comes out of Washington, as being helpful to our cause. Trump winds up Bejing and because the US is currently 'stuffed', the Chinese can put two fingers up to the world and 'the Donald'.
Tripod, the only certainty in this is that we have Chinese support and that without it, the whole project would be a non-starter. If this presentation to Dhaka fails, I think we can view the whole episode as having run its course and its all over. But, we are still in the game and let's remain positive, though the situation in Bangla is pretty dire for their main export industry - RMG.
On a 'power generation' note, I was reading about the Kariba dam a couple of weeks ago and at 55 years of age, it needed some serious repairs due to erosion at its base. This was from the water as it spills through the dam conduits, crashes down at the base of the dam. and is then channelled away.
There was a section about its generating capacity, which showed how massive our project in Bangla is.
Kariba has a south generator for Zambia and north bank generator for Zimbabwe. The Zimbawean generators were pretty worn out and our potential colleagues Sino Hydro stepped in with two new generators + the urgent repairs needed. All financed from Bejing.
We are talking 6000MW at Phulbari - Kariba upgraded on the north bank and Zambian side better maintained...………...total generation capacity for the two - a surprisingly low 2000MW, a thousand on the Zambian side, 950 from the newly upgraded Zimbabwean plant.
Goes to show, our project is truly massive.
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