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Zambia has initiated the importation of 218 megawatts of power from South Africa’s Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) during off-peak hours. This move, starting from August 1st, aims to mitigate the country’s power deficit.
ZESCO Spokesperson, Matongo Maumbi, confirmed the additional power import in an interview with ZNBC News at the ongoing 96th Agricultural and Commercial Society show in Lusaka. Maumbi stated that the importation has enabled ZESCO to stabilize the power supply, meeting the rising demand and ensuring critical installations like hospitals, mines, and other industries receive uninterrupted power.
Maumbi highlighted that ZESCO is taking measures to ensure public institutions are not affected during power rationing. The power utility company is isolating certain public institutions and has procured generators to maintain power supply during load shedding.
“So far, 22 generators have been procured and are expected to arrive in the country within the month,” Maumbi said. These generators will be installed in vital public institutions such as hospitals and market areas where it is challenging to isolate from the national grid during load shedding.
This strategic move by ZESCO aims to enhance the reliability of power supply and support the country’s essential services amid growing energy demands.
Too little too late.
Loadshedding is pure incompetence and lack of strategic planning. The Zesco head is a square in a circular hole and must be removed without delay.
What happened to the brilliant ideas our president was expounding? In the first press conference he confidently informed the nation that he had eliminated loadshedding only for Zesco to announce the following day that loadshedding was going to start. I remember one lap dog manager apologizing for “misleading” the president.
YOU 100% CORRECT
We have been crying for him and underlings to go
But as usual no one is listening
Waste of money. That electricity won’t even be distributed. Today is 4th, was there no loadshedding last 4 days?
– Zambia has tonnes of Maize in reserve, get donations even from starving countries. But no citizen got 2 meals a day.
– medicines are expiring in warehouses, meanwhile people are sent from hospitals to die at home.
This is no country to fight for.
Export in order to import, f..lish decision
Hakainde is a big disappointment from all angles. Period.
I recall somewhere in 2022 that they were two overzealous chaps who went on television laughing at the the South African power deficit and boasting about the 34Mwatts CEC project. Attributing all the sucess to President HH. Here comes karma. Checkmate! Humility is important bane. Pride comes before the fall.
Importation of power is a short term measure.
Try to find long term or permanent solutions.
Just team up with bilateral partners to set up
Solar power stations in every big town or city.
Not recieving aid in form of maize.
Knowing Zambia, once you go solar, the sun will disappear too.
What I see is a nation of failures. Why did we concentrate all power generation in Southern Province when we have rivers all of the country? Oh we can only do what the World Bank or IMF tell us to do. Zambia is not the only country facing a drought and neither is this the first drought we are experiencing. But we are the proverbial farmer who put all his eggs in one basket.
There are rivers which look like there’s been no dry spell…they continue flowing without ceasing.
Load shedding is as a result of umungulu, lack of commitment, ubufontini, no political will, lack of modernization, corruption and backwardness
Will be interesting to see if South Africa experiences loadshedding as from August – they had 4 months of no LS sofar…..
Why should we take this article seriously when they can not spell Eskom correctly. Perhaps we should call them Sesco? After 1987 the name was changed to Eskom from Escom. Now you know who you are buying electricity from if what you are saying are not half truths.
And this is the reason why Zambia is experiencing loadshedin…..corruption and kickbacks and looting of our Natural resources….How do you export in order to import???…what kind of reasoning is that??? Still zero impact….looks like someone is importing “AIR”………Musa Mwenya said the corruption he witnessed in UPND is scary
Let us see an improvement in loadshedding and boost productivity of our country, though the issues at ZESCO are inherent, and not really a CEO problem, most of these parastatals have CEO issues, where some CEOs have no clue but just believe in terrorising employees
And not really a CEO prblem ???? Are you serious MADODA
@Ufimbenuma
Thats exactly what HH said whilst in opposition….these Politicians have no shame
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