COPPERBELT Energy Corporation Plc (CEC) has announced that its profit before interest and tax increased to US $34.46 million last year from US$15.7 million in 2010 on account of increased power uptake by the mines.

COPPERBELT Energy Corporation says it has not shelved plans to bid for a stake in a Nigerian state power company that is scheduled for privatisation. Nigeria plans a multi-billion dollar privatisation of its power sector

A Nigerian investment bank will partner Zambia's largest distributor of power in the financing and development of six new hydroelectric power stations worth over $1bn in Zambia, an industry official has said. The Managing Director

COPPERBELT Energy Corporation Plc and the Africa Finance Corporation have signed a deal aimed at financing the construction of two hydro-power projects in Zambia. Under the deal, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) will finance the

LUSAKA Feb 1 (Reuters) - Zambia expects to have a power surplus of about 600 megawatts (MW) by 2016, which should help ease the electricity deficit facing southern Africa, an industry official said on Wednesday.

THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) has this year projected to produce 600,000 litres of bio-diesel from crude jatropha oil to meet its own fuel requirements. The company will next month start blending the fuel from

THE Copperbelt Energy Corporation Plc (CEC) is to invest US$ 140 million (K718.6 billion ) in a power generation project in Kabompo in preparation for the impending increase in the demand for electricity. This is

We received the latest fibre map that Liquid Telecom presented recently at AfricaCom. The map shows what the terrestrial fibre network’s overall footprint in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and DRC. It’s not clear if

Countrywide broadband connectivity is now available across Zambia. Cabling firm CEC Liquid Telecom has completed the first phase of its network in the African country – a fibre link between the capital city Lusaka and

Network operator Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of the Econet Wireless Group, said this week that phase one of its countrywide fibre network in Zambia is now live and providing broadband connectivity to mobile operators, internet