Kariba Dam

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A 500MW Floating Solar Plant being designed by Green Hybrid Power in partnership with the Intensive Energy User Group is to be installed at Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe. 

About Kariba Dam

• Location: It is a concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge,
• It is on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• The construction of the dam was completed in 1959.
• The 128-metre-high double-curvature concrete arch dam provides critical electricity to both countries. 
• It had created the world’s largest human-made lake by volume, Lake Kariba.

Key Facts about Zambezi River

• It is Africa’s 4th longest river and the continent’s longest east-flowing stream.
• Course

• • It starts off in Angola’s southern highlands, at the source of a river called the Lungwebungu.
  • It flows for about 3,421 kilometers through Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
• Waterfalls: Victoria Falls and Chavuma Falls are on this river.
• Dams: The Cohara Bassa and Kariba Dams, two of Africa’s major hydroelectric power sources, are located along the Zambezi’s course.
• Tributaries: The main tributaries of the Zambezi River include the Shire, Kafue, Luangwa, Kabompo, and Cuando (Kwando) rivers.

Source: DTE

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