In response to stakeholder concerns,ZESCO Limited on 1st April implemented a staggered 8 hour daily load shedding program for residential areas in Lusaka.This means each area will experience two power outages of four hours each,spread throughout the day with the aim of minimizing disruption.
This is according to a statement issued by Matongo Maumbi, company spokesperson.
ZESCO acknowledged the unique needs of industrial and farming operations.These sectors will continue to experience a single, uninterrupted 8 hour block of loadshedding,with 16 hours of full power supply.This allows for better production planning.
The ongoing loadshedding program implemented on March 11,2024, is a necessary measure to address the national power deficit caused by low genereation capacity.Staggering residential outages aims to minimize disruptions while ensuring grid stability.
ZESCO encouraged customers and the public to practice energy efficiency during load shedding periods. ZESCO appologized for any inconvenience caused and urged all customers to treat all power lines as live,as power could be restored unexpectedly.
You reporters need to go to school. What is the meaning of: “This means each area will experience two power outages of four hours each,spread throughout the day with the aim of minimizing disruption.”Its nonsense but you still pass it for publication
Good point you have raised and lapses you have identified. Let Field Ruwe start his own media outlet. Print, radio, television or indeed Web based. Let him implement the standards we all wish for.
You failed to the understand the english…….
@ sleepyjoe. Zambia does not need words and critics. We have excess numbers of crooked critics such as Tayali, Mmembe, Kambwili, Nawakwi, Clive, Ruwe etc. What we lack are action men and women. How I wish zambia could have a Moise katumbi, a Dangote, a Patrice Motsepe.
Staggered loadshedding whatever. After we were presented with footage of our president boasting about having ended loadshedding in two years!
Yeah Neh, i hope Zambians learn from this & not to be misled again by cheap pro-paganda when voting!!!!!!! Zambians wake up mwebantu. The country is put on pause like that…… No infrastructure developments…. Zambians are lamenting, my GOD!!!!! They are really fixing it ( you ) for sure. They promised you heaven on earth but look now, you have bitter, backward people in leadership… shame on you their praise singers. NEVER TRUST ANY POLITICIAN… the WORST ENEMY to an African child is their political leaders period !!!! Ufimbenuma Iweee !!!!
How do you implement staggered loadshedding only in Lusaka and the other major towns are left out? Is Lusaka so special than the rest of the other Towns? This is not leadership at all.
Let the payment for restructured debt go towards load shedding crisis e that moneyTo build solar farms.
The two days we have had two load management is a total disaster. They either forget switching On or Off. Madness is not sensible to export when the local market is hungry for power. The 24-hour production remains a pipe dream. The buy-Zambian campaign has failed too. Zesco is a public enterprise and providing electricity to Zambians is their prime mandate. Not feeding other foreign industries across the borders.
Talk is cheap…..and they continue fooling gullible Zambians….”staggered” as if there’s any difference… ipante pante Government indeed….and Musokotwane already has started shifting goal posts about debt restructuring….he knows that they didn’t do anything just postponing kaloba
Delivering a ministerial statement in Parliament this morning, Mr. Kapala says the water levels in Kariba dam have been reducing on account of low inflows from the Zambezi river and over utilisation of water to sustain power generation has also worsened the situation.
The Minister said load management will be undertaken for a period of four months aimed at rationing water in the dam in order to avoid a complete shutdown.
Mr.Kapala explained that ZESCO will optimize generation at all power stations in the country and fast track the development of other power projects to mitigate the impact of reduced power generation.
He said as of 28th November 2022, the water levels were at 4.1 percent of usable water storage saying this threatens power generation for both Zambia and Zimbabwe.
"ZESCO will implement a load management regime aimed at rationing power generation at the Kariba Complex to avoid a complete shutdown. This will be done with the view to minimize the impact on key economic sectors as well as preservation of the integrity of generation units at the Kariba Complex," Mr Kapala said.
He added, "We anticipate that based on the water levels, this will translate into a load management regime starting on 15th December 2022 of up to a maximum of six (6) hours daily until the water levels improve."
He said the Kariba Lake is designed to operate between 475.50m and 488.50m of water above sea level (asl) for purposes of hydropower generation. The water allocation is done considering the need to sustain reservoir operations at Kariba."
"For the year 2022, the ZRA allocated a combined total of Forty-Five Billion Cubic Meters (45 BCM) of water to ZESCO and ZPC for power generation at the Kariba Complex. The allocation was to be shared equally between ZESCO Limited and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) with each utility to utilize 22.5 Billion Cubic Meters of water respectively for the year 2022," he said.
Mr Kapala said it is projected that if the current power generation and subsequent water utilization continues, the remaining water for power generation at the Kariba complex, also referred to as live storage, will not be sufficient for power generation beyond mid-December 2022.
"Against this background, there is need to implement measures aimed at rationing the water in the lake in order to avoid a complete shutdown of electricity generation activities at the Kariba Complex."
He said the proposed measures will be phased and revisited from time to time over the next four months in order to ensure security of electricity supply and mitigate the impact on the economy.
"Zambezi River Authority has with immediate effect, directed Zimbabwe Power Company to immediately ensure that Power generation activities at the South Bank Power Station are reduced to a maximum of 300MW instead of 600MW, while ZESCO Limited will reduce generation at Kariba North Bank Power Station to a maximum of 800MW, until further review of the substantive Hydrological outlook at lake Kariba will be undertake," he said.
"ZESCO will optimize generation at all its hydro power stations in Zambia (Kariba North Bank, Victoria Falls, Small Hydros, Kafue Gorge and Kafue Gorge Lower power stations). It is expected that this will complement the generation from the Kariba Complex to Mid-January 2023 when the water inflows are expected to start improving in the Kariba reservoir."
FusekePF and governments before allowed construction in wetlands around the countrynow we paying the price
Excuses Excuses Excuses. What has wetlands got to do with loadshedding?
My family overwhelmingly voted for Upnd because among the reasons the PF was telling lies that load shedding was due to lower levels of water at the Kariba Dam.I have reminded them of this and one of them simply told me that it’s due to the PF’s poor governance that the Kariba Dam is still empty.I gave up.
You can’t polish ma’tu’vi………
PF will always be ma’tu’vi
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