ZESCO Limited says relative power supply stability will enable the company to implement seven hour electricity supply schedules for residential customers effective 6th December.
The development follows the completion of maintenance works on the Zambian component of the Zambia – Namibia interconnector and the normalized power import flows through the Zambia – Zimbabwe interconnector.
And ZESCO says some customers have experienced power supply for slightly extended periods in recent days because of the availability of power supplies from independent power traders from the Southern African Power Pool market for their customers in the Demoratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Utility Company says the power which is transported via the Zambian network was temporarily available to customers during corrective maintenance work on the Zambia – DRC interconnector.
Meanwhile Zesco projects a 1,700 megawatts power production increase if the country records normal to above normal rainfall in 2025.
Speaking at the European Union-Zambia Business Club quarter engagement in Lusaka, Zesco Acting Managing Director Justin Loongo said this will consequently result in the country experiencing 12 hours of power supply.
So from 13 hrs to 17:58 hrs= 7 hrs?
Dear ZESCO,
Loadshedding is not normal. There is nothing to celebrate or be commended for here. Why is it so difficult to fire incompetence? Dubai is a desert but you don’t hear about power cuts there. What happened to those ideas / statements?
Dear ZESCO
When the only succesful venture you can do is win the FAZ league then we can see you are in the wrong business. Leave Electricity to the company in Dubai they are more succesful. Or hand over to EsKOM in neighbouring South Africa-they conquered loadshedding yet they have less than half Zambia’s water bodies. Loadshedding is not normal. Would it be normal to call your football team Zambia Loadshedders FC?
Residential ??
So to hell with Agriculture and industrial Sectors
Just a question is this something to do with vote buying ?
Again just wishing for normal to above normal rainfall. What contingency plan have you put in place if we don’t get normal rainfall? It sure looks to be going that way.
Iwe wine so far ,what contingency plans have you put in place in case there rains are below normal?
Kenya shows us the way forward in the power sector .Some 70% of their power is steady geothermal so no interruptions and no over reliance on rain-fed dams like Zambia.
For those not in the know, Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth’s crust. Do we have such place s in Zambia? For now Nuclear energy and Solar energies must be attempted.
@Katana yes we can ,Zambia has geothermal potential too. Check out Kapishya and also Chinyunyu hot springs .
Ifyabupuba fye kufibantu fyapala imbushi, baswaini.
GIVE POWER TO PEOPLE!