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Rhodesia-Congo Border Power Corporation became Copperbelt Power Company (CPC), an entity that supplied electricity to the mines until 1986 when it was incorporated into the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
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area with 246 km of 220kV power lines and 678 km of 66kV lines. The company purchases electricity from
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579:"Niger sells stake in Shiroro power plant"
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