SOME Ndola and Lusaka residents have welcomed Zesco’s countrywide installation of free solar geysers.
The residents have since urged the opposition against perceiving this as a political campaign because it will benefit all households regardless of political affiliation.
In Lusaka Paul Kabinga hailed the project saying it would go a long way in reducing on the expenditure of electricity.Mr Kabinga said that for a long time now, people had been consuming a lot of electricity by boiling water using electricity.
“This is a good initiative because we will cut electricity and save for sale to other industries like the mines that consume a lot of power,” he said.
George Zulu of Kabulonga thanked Zesco for introducing the geysers saying the intention was of great benefit to the country and the Zambian populace.
“If we want to save electricity it is vital that Zesco takes this initiative, we have abundant sunshine and yet we do not utilise it, so it is a good thing and we must support it fully until it’s fully implemented,” he said.
President Rupiah Banda recently launched Zesco’s electricity power supply initiatives for residential customers throughout the country aimed at providing reliable supply and cutting bills by close to 40 per cent.
In Ndola, Steven Chipindi said the decision to introduce the free geysers would be helpful to the majority of the people who spent a lot of money on charcoal, firewood and electricity charges.
Mr Chipindi said the distribution of the geysers was a clear demonstration of President Banda’s commitment to bettering the people’s lives within the short term that he had been in office.
He said through his hard work, President Banda had managed to come up with initiatives which had helped change people’s lives.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Ba Times of Zambia and Lusaka Times…what an attempt to promote an MMD campaign gimmick. Are you sure of what you are reporting? This space has become useless from the time it was bought off by the MMD. We no longer see quality stories. It has been obliterated and gone in oblivion. This site has been reduced into an MMD public relations department. Your stories are painfully boring and of poor standard. How can you carry stories from Times of Zambia yet no single media source around the world uses its stories? Your will never see Reuters, AP, AFP, BBC, CNN etc crediting their stories to any of the Zambia public media. The reason is very simple…they are RUBBISH.
So how will ZESCO make money in the long term?? Are they intending to be exporting electricity?
Let us look at this and appreciate it as a good initiative regardless of whether its a campaign gimmick or not. We all know how high our electricity charges are save for the amount consumed by electric geysers and boiling water.Even as we criticise, let us do so objectively considering all the pros and cons of the policies that our politicians are coming up with. They are all telling us what they are going to do for us and our nation so lets listen carefully and take our voices to the ballot.
JK. The starting point should be, being able to understand the problems the country faces. List them in order of priority and then see whether the initiatives being undertaken are actually addressing those problems in an effective and efficient manner. Regarding solar geysers, i would rather start with provision of clean running water (24/7) before i provide the geysers. There should be a logical sequence to events.
Get the geysers,money and other incentives but in THE BOOTH NI DON’T KUBEBA.
Brag about developmental projects,achievements and last minute development BUT NI DON’T KUBEBA come 2011.
REMINDER TO MMD MOURNERS: LUSAKA AND COPPERBELT ARE HEADQUARTERS OF DONT KUBEBA. Maybe take the geysers to VUBWI
Ba RB mulebako serious. We want Employment, not those geysers. You you are feeding your twins on tax payers money. Are we going to feed our children on geysers. Ba RB, these geysers are not development. Here you are 100% wrong
If you want my vote, stop the damm project now
Eish….free solar geysers for people with no running water, and mobile hospitals where there are no roads !
Zesco is the only company that discourages its clients to consume more of its products…
Bwana rb,people really need employment,good water sanitation,proper medication and other necessities not geysers.mr president please try to shuffle your pannel of advicers their just blackmailling you for spoonfeeding in return.its like all these people who are appreciating this kind of ****up dont really feel that pain of suffering and starving.most people are suffering am telling you.guyz lets be real sometimes dont just take anything politically.one day it will be you.
So its true that the 90 days theory works. It was better if all these projects were done 90 days after rb became president not now because we all know he wants our votes.
When load shedding was at its maximum I suggested that the quickest and cheapest way of easing load shedding was by introducing energy saving measures. I gave the example of Uganda and Rwanda where energy saving bulbs were introduced to replace incandescent bulbs at no cost. In Uganda it was estimated that 50 MW would be saved this way, instead of building a new plant of the same capacity. Zesco has not only introduced energy saving bulbs but it has gone a step further by introducing solar water heaters as well. How does it work? If an electric geyser has a power rating of say 1500W and you stop using it because you are using a solar water heater it means you are saving this 1500W.
Contd. 150,000 solar water heaters is a saving of 150MW more than the planned Itezhitezhi Scheme. The cost of this plant is much more than solar water heaters. My only concern is that this project has been tooted as the brain child of RB and yet the mooting of this project may have been during Levy’s time. The World Bank has been funding these energy saving projects under its increased access to electricity programme. I suspect this is a World Bank project. The selection of Mandevu is political. A substantial number of people in Mandevu use charcoal. It would have resulted in almost 100% saving of electricity for water heating if a place like Kabulonga had been chosen. The reduction in the consumption of charcoal is welcome as it is environmentally friendly.
Ba pumbafu! celebrating free geysers and yet you don’t even have a drop of water in your homes!
Some people in Lusaka have never seen how a water tap with running water looks like! For others, a pit latrine is the only toilet they have ever known! Get the geysers and use the material to make mugomo/shomeka for drawing water at communal taps! Ubuwelewele muchalo chandi!!!
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