New policy to cut Zim’s energy intensity

THE government’s recently launched National Energy Efficiency Policy seeks to reduce the country’s energy intensity to the global average target of 3,4 megajoules per gross domestic product (GDP) power purchasing parity (PPP) from 151 megajoules.

This means that for every unit of the GDP measured in PPP, Zimbabwe consumes 151 megajoules of energy, against the global average of 3,4  megajoules.

Consequently, the economy consumes a huge amount of energy to produce each unit of economic value because 95,37% of Zimbabwe’s power comes from just two sources.

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