Zambia Needs Strategic Energy Solutions Forum
Zambia’s current energy strategy reflects deep and critical inconsistencies that threaten the country’s economic stability and long-term development that we aspiring to achieve and consistently wanting to anchor.
The closure of Indeni Oil Refinery, the simultaneous investment in multiple refining projects thus new partnership with Angola’s refinery, with plans to construct new oil refinery facility in Ndola and the conversion of the TAZAMA pipeline reveal a lack of coherent planning models given the circumstantial factors with the drive for green energy transition process.
As global energy transitions accelerate, Zambia risks investing in soon-to-be-obsolete fossil fuel infrastructure.
To avoid repeating past mistakes in the energy and power sectors, the country urgently needs a ‘Strategic National Energy Forum’ an inclusive platform for strategic energy dialogue, implementation and national future planning.
Energy policy must move from reactive decisions to integrated, future-focused governance if Zambia is to position itself as a sustainable and competitive economy.
