Botswana: Zesco confirms interest in Sese coal project

Zambia’s Zesco has issued a letter of intent confirming its interest in receiving power from the 300MW Sese integrated coal mine and power project in Botswana. Zesco has agreed to work with Sese developer African Energy Resources (AER) on a transmission system connection agreement based on a connection into the Zesco grid at or near the Livingstone substation. The proposed transmission line is planned to take up to 300MW of new power generation capacity, and up to 600MW with further upgrading.