IMPORTER TO EXPORTER This file photo shows Wada Kealotswe trimming a pencil using a pencil cutting machine bought from China in Gaborone, Botswana on March 6, 2022. Using a China-built power plant, Botswana, a net importer of electricity, was slowly becoming an electricity exporter. XINHUA PHOTO
GABORONE: Botswana has been a net importer of electricity over the years. However, the coal-fired power station Morupule B — built by the China National Electric Engineering Corp. (CNEEC) — is slowly but surely changing Botswana's status quo, Prof. Edward Dintwe, dean of the faculty of Engineering and Technology at the University of Botswana, said in an interview with Xinhua.