ZESCO Limited has announced that load shedding hours will be reduced during the festive season.
Zesco Public Relations Manager Hazel Zulu tells Smart Eagles in a statement that customers will now be experiencing up to 4 hours of load shedding with effect from tomorrow 23rd December 2020 to 2nd January 2021.
Ms Zulu says this decision is necessitated by the expected decrease in demand for electricity during this period due to a reduction in industrial activities as most companies will be on break hence, the need to transfer the benefit to residential customers.
“As a Corporation, we attach great importance to these festive celebrations since it is a time that promotes the social-economic wellbeing of our customers as it brings families and communities together and enhances trade and other commercial activities,” she said.
“We, however, appeal to our customers to continue employing energy efficient initiatives such as switching off all non-essential appliances, using gas for cooking and solar for lighting to help conserve the available power.”
She has since advised customers to report any outages outside their load shedding hours which may be attributed to faults.
We thank you back zesco. Since upnd members and especially their leadership are very evil and worship the dark side you can load shed their specific homes.
If you really understood how much that has affected the economy you wouldn’t even issue that statement with a smile as you’re doing us a favor. Some of you don’t even know why you have a job at Zesco
Mwefipubamwe.
10,15 or 20 yrs ago, it was so strange to experience loadsheding. But in the last few yrs, its very strange to have power in our homes. When power gets back, people cerebrate as if its a goal scored in a soccer match. To the powers that be, why cant you allow another competitor in the energy sector?
Why can zesco not reduce load shedding from now on as water level must be above normal with
Floods all over.What excuse do you
Have now?
This is the biggest scam in Zambian history….I wonder what excuse they have now for loadsheding?
Imagine when the whole of Lusaka is flooded and the other bum was saying Lusaka is like Los Angeles now under public fools. Soon crocks will start manifesting in some compounds.
Zesco is just a cash cow for the PF. There is nothing that they say or do that makes sense anymore.
Whether loading shading hours will be reduced to 4 hrs or not a lot of small scale activities have been affected by your corporations misplaced investment or strategic planning. Madam Hazella Zulamani your statement does not make any sense in fact that department of corporate affairs should be brought under distribution because it does not add value to service delivery. ZESCOLU is not in the business of PUBLIC RELATIONS but generation, transmission and distribution of power. We need more technicians and engineers not office workers who are just increasing overall overheads. damage control will not help people know the inefficiencies of Zambia. Meantime, what has happened to solar plant at MFEZ and the new substation under construction near water works along Tokyo way. There are mono…
When we told them that water levels at Kariba were not the real issue, the *****s argued and called us all sorts of bad names from their satanic mouths, now today, Kariba is overfilled, they are pointing to Kafue project. When you don’t know, just says so mwe mbushi imwe, Leave the job to competent people, not ukulasabaila fye. Stupid idyots.
My first cousin we are proud of you , god bless
Bamwine – the city is flooded more now because these thieves have cut corners and really messed up the drainage with the hideous bridges they have built around the city, they have also built houses for themselves in water catchment areas
So loadshedding is due to industrial consumption.
Liers!! It’s because some industries are closed!!
This will be nice ..but please, we are waiting for complete reduction of these hours. We have suffered a lot
Don’t issue those statements, you cheated on levels at kariba dam, you cheated on commissioning the lower kafue project ,. We are tired of you .
No newsworthy, what’s load shedding. In my area we get power from our neighbouring country
How do you expect flooding in the northern part of our country affect our power generation which is mainly done in the southern part of the country. Generation is along the Zambezi watershed and the rest of the country is on the Congo watershed or lower Zambezi which has no impact on our power generation capacity. Let’s understand issues.
PF KNOWS THAT ZESCO ELECTRICITY IS VERY EXPENSIVE AND NO ORDINARY ZAMBIAN CAN AFFORD TO PAY FOR ELECTRICITY THE WHOLE MONTH. THUS, LOAD SHEDDING IS STRATEGY THE PF USES TO HIDE UP THE REAL COST OF POWER BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT IF ZAMBIANS DISCOVERED THIS THEY WOULD STAGE A RIOT. I CHALLENGE THE PF TO ORDER ZESCO TO STOP LOAD SHEDDING JUST FOR MONTH AND WATCH WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
dont they go on brake every year?