Energy Minister Peter Kapala says government is developing a new national electrification strategy which will ensure optimal utilisation of resources in the rural electrification agenda and is expected to be finalised in 2022. Speaking in Parliament, Thursday, Kapala said government had an ambitious strategy dubbed “beyond the grid Zambia” programme. “We are in the process of developing a new national electrification strategy which is expected to be finalised in 2022. This will utilise new technologies to ensure optimal utilisation of resources in the rural electrification agenda. It will also capture new areas of electrification that were not included in the rural electrification master plan of 2008. The master plan that I have laid before the House was done almost a...

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