Kaputa District in the Northern Province has been plunged into total darkness following the running out of diesel for the thermal generator in the area.
Northern Province ZESCO Manager Peter Chamfya and residents confirmed the power blackout to ZANIS in Kaputa today.
Residents told ZANIS that the district has had no power supply for over a week, forcing residents to resort to using charcoal and candles as sources of energy.
The irate residents appealed to ZESCO management to urgently intervene in the matter by sending diesel to the area to resolve the power problem in the district.
Northern Province ZESCO Manager Peter Chamfya, however, assured the residents that his company has already dispatched diesel to the District and that the power supply would soon be normalized in the area.
He further appealed to Kaputa residents to remain calm as ZESCO was doing everything possible to restore power supply to their households.
The abundance of water in Zambia and strategic waterfalls all over Zambia makes it a sad reading to have power failures as a norm. Once, I worked with a colleague medical doctor from Egypt who came to Zambia. He was concerned that we had neglected the natural potential of our resources which could turn around Zambia. How he wished they had such fertile land in Egypt! According to him in Zambia you could throw down any seed anywhere and it would yield fruit, it was not the case in his land which had such limited land. Please let us take advantage of this. Luapula alone could supply the whole North and beyond with power if only we were serious enough.
What is the difference between Thermal and Diesel Generator?
#2, a thermal power plant is one in which coal is fired to heat water which is then convereted into steam. The steam so produced is at high pressure enough spins the turbine. This rotatary motion causes the electric gebnerator to spin at high speed thereby producing electricity.
A diesel generator is different from a thernmal power plant in the sense that diesel power plant is a combination of a diesel engine with an electrical generator. The diesel engine is reciprocating in nature and similar to an automobile diesel vehicle engine. A diesel engine is coupled to an electric generator that generates electric energy. I hope this explanation answers ur ?.
We have been hearing about the discovery of oil in Eastern Province, and Oil and Natural gas in Northwestern province. Time for big and loud talk is over, we need to see some tangible and practical actions put in place. If it’s true that oil and gas have been discovered, we need a deliberate policy in place that will encourage investment in the exploitation of the resource. Dependence on imported crude oil is synonymous with slavery. Come on leaders, wisen up fast. If you have to invite foreign investment you have to negotiate deals that will benefit the country and not your personal interests. Why are all the deals so lopsided like all the leaders are illiterate. It’s such a shame.
Its too expensive to take the national grid to some of these places. I have a suggestion. Why not give Kaputa to Congo DR?
while we are busy inviting investors in various sectors of the economy, we are rather slow regarding expanding our energy generation capacities and other basic infrastructure to accommodate these new investments. at this rate most of the rural areas will remain not connected to the grid. This is a serious matter
Someone said “Where there is no vision people perish”. At first you would think that we in Zambia are doing a lot of hard thinking. A visit to few African countries, not including the Developed world, you realize that the saying”Mwana ushiyenda atasha nyina kunaya” is true. We get cheated by this and that and yet, when you visit some Townships in South Africa, for example, you realize that we neither have infra-structure nor visionary leadership to take us into the 21st Century. Let the people with brians and visions take leadership and not the current idea “kano fye umwana wesu” or “mwana wa cisi buyo” or “umodzi ku m’mawa” These are spoiling our country and development.Wake up you Zambians