Botswana Power Corporation - Gaborone - Botswana

Botswana Power Corporation, a parastatal utility which was formed in 1970 by an Act of Parliament is responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity within Botswana to areas approved by the Ministry of Minerals Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security.
The Corporation, within the forty-eight years of its existence, has developed from a small, oil-fired power station in Gaborone which was commissioned in 1970 and dismantled in 1989 to one Thermal Power Station at Morupule situated some twelve kilometres west of Palapye village in the Central District. The Power station is supplied with coal from adjacent Morupule Colliery.