ZESCO Limited has attributed the countrywide loss of power experienced this morning to a system disturbance resulting into the loss of generation at Kafue Gorge power station.
ZESCO Director of Corporate Affairs and Business Development Bestty Phiri in a statement issued to QFM News says the system disturbance at 07:41hours resulted in the loss of power to all parts of the country except part of Southern and western provinces which continued to be supplied from Victoria Falls power station.
Mr Phiri says immediately the restoration process began and by 09:00 hrs power was restored to most parts of Lusaka.
He says by 10:00 hrs power supply was restored to parts of the Copperbelt and Central provinces.
System disturbance ? – doesn’t explain anything except it being just another way of saying “don’t bother me asking why – I have no clue myself. Just be grateful the d#%!! thing started working on it’s own again”.
You have made my day. Thank you!!!
That’s ZESCO for you
system disturbance…….someone just tapped the computer keyboard!!
System disturbance Ba bestty, Sure? You re not talking to kids own up!
thats answer is also very Bestty!!!
Ba Besty you were supposed to explain system disturbance.
imagine the loss pano tufikile countrywide power failure shouldn’t even be mentioned. this is pure inefficiency.
I’m not hearing it won’t happen again in her statement. Why can’t we have back up power supply
BA ZESCO WE DONT NEED CONFUSING TERMS TO EXPLAIN CAUSE OF THE BLACK OUT THIS MORNING. IT DID NOT OCCUR AT 07HRS BUT AROUND 03HRS. EXPLAIN THINGS IN SIMPLE OR PLAIN LANGUAGE SO THAT CLIENTS CAN UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION. SYSTEM DISTURBANCE MEANING SOME GHOST WNE TINTO THE POWER PLANT AND DID THE DISTURBANCE. QUACK ENGINEERS YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE SAME STATION FOR DOCKEY YEARS AND YOU DONMT SEEM TO BE IMPROVING. NOT LONG AGO YOU TOOK THE PRESIDENT O KARIBA NORTH BANK TO COMMISSION SOME GENRERATOR YET WE ARE STILL FAR FROM REALITY. COME ON GUYS BE PROACTIVE. IF THINGS ARE NOT WORKING THEN BETTER IMPORT POWER FROM CONGO DR. WE WILL PAY FOR JUST AS DO WE DO WITH PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.
CHIWELEWELE don’t talk about things you don’t understand. Sometimes learn to hide yo ignorance from the public. Go to school if you want to understand terminologies you fool. There was a system disturbance which means there was a fault in the system which brought about the power failure and a subsequent trip off or power outage.
BLACK OUTS LIKE THAT HAPPEN EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD ESPECIALLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES LIKE OURS.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT NEW CHALLENGES ESPECIALLY ENGINEERING WISE.
WHILST OTHERS ARE BUSY CRITICIZING, OTHERS HAVE SOMETHING TO BRAINSTORM ABOUT.
IT IS NOT GOOD IT HAPPENED BUT ONCE IT HAPPENS, SOLUTIONS HAVE TO BE FOUND TO STOP IT,CONTROL IT OR EVEN MINIMIZE IT.
The person reporting this is not very smart….obviously there was system disturbance – we felt it! We did not have power so we know for sure something went wrong. The question is what went wrong? Giving statements that are shallow does not help anyone.
abusing the word ‘system’
That is just nosence. Its the usual ZESCO failer
No hurricanes, no typhoons, no earthquakes, no snow storms, and no tornadoes, but you still experience frequent power outages. Only in the developing world!! Why,why, why.??
WOW! WHEN YOU READ YOUR POSTING AGAIN, AM HOPING THAT YOU WILL REALIZE YOU ACTUALLY MENTIONED THE ANSWER.
what exactly caused the power failure….. everyone knows there was a disturbance because its not a normal condition… Ba ZESCO please……keep quiet if you dont wanna expose your inefficiencies….
Dear All. The outages will happen in future more often. Zambia has a gap of 400 – 500 MW and an increase of economy will bring 200 MW every year. Peoples of Zambia you have to learn to live without electricity. Buy your own generation system with PV-Solar and Battery backups. No other chances. Come to Greenfields and buy your sun-generator for little money! Industry will be provided first – like Copperbelt.
Your Government is subsidising the mining industry with billions. Without investment in renewable energy you will become power-less. Harvest you own energy – sun never sends an invoice. [africa-grenfields(.)com]
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ya chacibipako mwee!!
This is the reason I will continue to clean old people bums in the diaspora. At the end of the day I go home to electricity all day every day, drive my camry in a street without pot holes, eat imichopo and a cold beer while I watch hd tv.
Mwebantu give betssy a break. It would take a 50 page report to explain what happened and most of you wouldn’t understand it anyway. The trip was necessary to protect the generators, transmission lines and transformers from damage. Its a necessary evil in all power systems. With no trip out inga amayanda yenu nayapya. You should be releived instead ati fi protection fya bomba.
KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS TO YOU.
A DETAILED OR TECHNICAL REPORT WOULD JUST HAVE CREATED MORE CONFUSION AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
That said, it is easier to do the right thing than try to explain what went wrong. We need professionals who will not lead us to situations where a non-engineer has to scramble for words to explain things like this. In the 70s it would be acceptable; now exposure is not a luxury.
It is not safe to link the entire country to one power station. Zesco or indeed GRZ must do something about this. It makes it very easy for enermies of the country to attack us.
Which enemies???
Two weeks ago there was a screaming headline that SATA had brought light and that loadshedding would be a thing of the past- this was when Sata was commissioning another MMD initiated project at Kariba – today we have a national black out. Scandalous.
Iwe above leave out the President of this.Mwefima Zambians ubunangani no fulo walifulisha.That’s Y Sata amishautila public.U need ifikoti at yo behind.What kind of disturbance was that.lf i had my way i can do an overhaul of Zesco.U’RE JUST CRAP .
Heads must roll. Very quickly
Did your system also habve a visit from the “angel” that confused the sign language fraud too.
Your response is like a fellow saying he got slept on duty because his eyes closed. Speak straight, you two bit engineer!
There was a systematic systemic failure of systems. This was becauise the system in the operating system didn’t follow the system laid down.
Dude just say “sh.it cut that even I don’t know about, I can’t explain. Just be glad that someone less paid than myself and less connected to the regime sorted sh.it out.” Or say “I fu.cked if I know what cut, sh.t happens!”