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ZESCO has continued to exempt critical and sensitive installations from Load shedding

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Power utility company Zesco says it has continued to exempt critical and sensitive installations around the country from load shedding in order to ensure that the operations of such institutions are not disrupted.

Zesco Public Relations Manager Hazel Zulu says the establishments in question include hospitals, airports and other amenities of a sensitive nature that require constant power supply to deliver strategic and life-saving services to the public.

Mrs Zulu said Zesco has received complaints from some customers around the country asserting that the company was not fair in the manner in which the load shedding programme was being expedited.

She said the customers are complaining that there are areas that do not experience load shedding at all.

Mrs Zulu has clarified that most exempt institutions do not enjoy single dedicated lines to their premises but instead there are other customers that feed on such lines.

She explained that in such a case, it becomes obvious that such customers will also have access to that power.

Mrs Zulu has since urged customers that are on exempted lines for one reason or the other to be prudent in the manner in which they use power and ensure that they use energy efficient solutions such as gas for cooking and energy saving bulbs for lighting.

“Our customers should know that ZESCO is not in any way being selective in the manner it is implementing the load shedding exercise. The emphasis is that only critical instiallations such as hospitals and other sensitive areas will be exempted from load shedding until such a time that our generation capacity improves”, she said.

13 COMMENTS

  1. I think we all have to agree that ZESCO is a useless entity that has allowed itself to be raped by PF cadres. Why are Sunday Chanda and Antonio Mwanza on ZESCP payroll? Result is massive load shedding with plan in sight. ZESCO is as visionless as Edgar Lungu

    • Useless Leadership. They should all be fired. They have failed Zambians. How do you make Losses yet you have upfront cash from your customers? Instead of improving services, they are donating the Money to PF. This nonsense should stop.

    • Pano tafika pano. Tizhiba kuti ibuti Zesco opanda manzi ndipo niosililathu. Niyokufa, taku, Kulibe anso kulibilethu.
      Asogoleli athu akuti yayi tiikileko mutengo ogura magetsi kapena mainvestors amagetsi angapake. Ati iyayi itse akanfulumende a bantu timinyokole na tariff.

    • Abale chino chaka cheve chamunyokola PF na Zesco ake.
      Ndipo na ufa nao akwela mutengo anso bad. Kulila kulipo nikwakuti, ayi tili na climate change.
      Ngati chino chaka chenze 2021 enzo enekela kupakin’ga ma bags ake PF.
      Alina mwai, 2021 akali patali. Vintu vinga chinje for the good.
      Chifundo abale. Pepani abale Zambia alibe hurricane na Tornado. The damage here is self inflicted on Zesco’s monopoly.
      Let’s hope things will not be this bad pa 2021 otherwise ni Zwaaaaaa!

    • @1.1, Useress Tribo H-organisation masquerading as a useress H-OPPOSITION. They have been tanishing Zambia’s peaceful image.

  2. Boza! i know one area where power does not go! its full Zambians with foreign origin. This area is not even 30kms near any sensitive institution as you call it. due to fear of being victimized,i wont mention it.

  3. Malabishi sure na mukazi, where are we headed?
    Here in Lusaka there is one street near Kasangula where load shedding is only two hours and there is no sensitive institution anywhere nearby. Unless this Hazed girl is telling us that homes of PF officials is her interpretation of sensitive installations. Hazel just shut your mouth otherwise you will lose your credibility. Delegate such nonsense to that pary cadre Henry Kapata.

  4. It’s time Zambians stopped giving their leaders special treatment! As long as our leaders don’t feel what every citizen feels, they will have no idea what you are talking about! We know many PF official residences that are not even close to any so called vital installations that NEVER got load shedded! Why? Why should the same people who caused the problem through poor planning be rewarded? Climate change is not only in Zambia as our leaders almost wanted to convince us. It’s those who fail to plan ahead who feel the full wrath of climate change! ZESCO knew our dam was losing water at 2cm per day. Why did they have to wait for water to get to Zero generation before advising emergency power imports? It’s shocking that ZESCO does not even understand or care the negative impact this power…

  5. It’s shocking that ZESCO does not even have the remorse to understand or care the negative impact this power deficit has had on our survival- the Economy! Power imports should have kicked in latest at 75% deficit to keep our businesses and the economy afloat! You don’t wait to hit ZERO before acting! PF and ZESCO have no excuse for not acting in good time because they were borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars to get non-priorities like aircraft instead of prioritizing power imports to keep the country at near 100% power availability!
    I think the best the ZESCO spokespersons should do is to keep quiet because any statement given is an excuse why ZESCO failed! That is like adding an insult to our business injuries! What we need to hear is a load shedding schedule that helps…

  6. What we need to hear is a load shedding schedule that helps businesses to get back to their feet! Give us power during productive hours of the day! Also you should by now have come up with a campaign backed by an SI to replace all Electronic stoves with Gas ones, and all Electric Geysers with Solar ones the same way you did with energy saving bulbs! This is what Botswana did many years ago to reduce demand on the grid! These are the practical things we need to hear you implementing not ukusabaila!

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