Jane Mlambo| ZESA Public relations manager, Fullard Gwasira has responded to Bulawayo residents who have raised concern over plans by the power utility to destroy the two cooling towers that have become synonymous with the city of kings.

In his response, Gwasira said they are destroying two small towers in order to put up one big one as they move to increase power generation capacity from the current 18 to 90 megawatts.

“Zesa wants to upgrade Bulawayo power station from the current 18MW to 90MW by changing the chain grate technology to fluidized one. Upgrade requires a bigger cooling tower & becoz there is no space for a new cooling tower, 2 will have to be removed to make way for one big tower,” said Gwasira.