The Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) has rescheduled the shutting of generator number one (1) at Kafue Gorge power station to the end of September.
ZESCO Senior Manager for Marketing and Public Relations Lucy Zimba said the shut down which was scheduled to take place from August 17 to September 2 for a period of 17 days will now take place at the end of September.
Ms Zimba said the shut down was meant to facilitate generator efficiency tests that were to be conducted by the contractor as part of the contractor’s obligation under the Power Rehabilitation Project recently completed at the Kafue Gorge power station.
Ms Zimba said this in Lusaka today in a press statement made available to ZANIS.
She explained that the shutdown of the 165 Mega Watts (MW) generator will result in a national power supply deficit of up to 100MW during peak hours daily and necessitate increased load shedding.
She further explained that the postponement of the shutdown was as a result of an unexpected high increase in power demand resulting from economic activities, increased irrigation of winter crops among many other economic activities.
“Having consulted our customers, ZESCO has decided to postpone the shutdown of generator number one at the Kafue Gorge power station to end of September 2009”, Ms Zimba said.
Ms Zimba last week announced that the power utility company would on Monday August 17 shutdown Generator number one at the Kafue Gorge power station for a period of 17 days.
The shutdown was to facilitate generator efficiency tests that were to be carried by the contractor.
ZANIS
After tests what next? Come on guys u dont make sense. Cant you just buy new equip and upgrade the system.
fisaleni natubelela amalasha mwembwa mwe!
Ba ZESCO ni maseting chabe.every time you make un planned announcement just to see how your customers will react.Your actions ammounts to terror.
Compounds will be heavily affect I tell you.
Ba ZESCO tell the landlords to reduce rentals. Your loadsheding is tatamount to staying in an unelectrified house. You are useless. Shit.
zesco is very dissapointing.i wonder what kind of engineers they have.in electrical engineering there is what we call diagonostics of transformers , generators and other electrical equipments over a period of time.this makes it possible to forsee a lot of problems that can come up whilest the equipment is in exploitation.not ati shutting down to carry out some tests.employ qualified engineers not ifyabukaya!!!