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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. Morupule power station was commissioned in two stages with the latest generator being commissioned in March 1989.The power station employs high technological control systems and operates on the dry cooling method thereby conserving water resources. Morupule Power Station provides approximately 20% of the country's power requirement Before commissioning of Morupule Power Station in 1989 the Corporation generated electricity from the Selebi Phikwe power station which was commissioned in 1974 and was decommissioned in 1989.