Brace for 10 plus hours load shedding
Energy expert engineer Bornface Zulu has charged that the Country which is currently grappling with the effects of the 8 hours power cut due to low rainfall and the droughts is likely to see an increased hours of load shedding to over 10 hours per day.
Engineer Zulu explained that if the droughts and the high weather temperatures currently being experienced in most parts of the Country continues in months to come, load shedding hours might go up by 2 hours to 10 hours per day.
On 11th March , 2024, Zesco Limited announced the 8 Hours of daily Load Shedding and attributed the move to The 700 Megawatts Deficit, due to the impact of the El Nino.
Commenting on the matter in an exclusive interview with the Zambian Business Times -ZBT, Energy expert engineer Bornface Zulu said that looking at the current prevailing weather conditions being experienced in the country, the load shedding hours might be increased further due water levels that might also drop further.
Zulu said that Ordinary Zambians need to prepare themselves with what is coming ahead of them by finding other alternative sources of energy such as solar energy.
He noted that there is an urgent need for the Government to formulate favorable policies that will attract foreign investors to invest in alternative sources of energy to develop the energy sector and reduce demand on the national grid.
He further noted that the energy sector will continue being underdeveloped if proper policies are not formulated to attract both local and foreign investors to invest in the energy sector.
He therefore emphasized on the need for cost reflective energy tariffs to attract more investment in the energy sector.
“Once we experience dryness it means that we are going to experience an increase in evaporation as well as a reduced inflow of rainfall that will also translate to the… https://zambianbusinesstimes.com/brace-for-10-plus-hours-load-shedding
He noted that there is an urgent need for the Government to formulate favorable policies that will attract foreign investors to invest in alternative sources of energy to develop the energy sector and reduce demand on the national grid. THIS MINDSET ABOUT FOREIGN INVESTORS AS MESSAIHS MUST CHANGE
True…Government must formulate policies that enable Zambians engineers to find suitable financing mechanism to partner with foriegn financiers to build power generation platforms to expand the growing power demand
Here in Luanshya, power goes at 05:00. It comes back at 22:hrs. Even now we are in darkness. We don’t even know when power will be restored. May be the Nephew of the Great Leader…the one busy employing his relatives at Zesco can do the maths for me ..this doesn’t look like 8 hours to me.
Zesco is very unprofessional and a bunch of liars. There’s no 8 hours loadshedding, it’s more than 9 hours daily here in Ndola. Other suburbs it’s 11 hours going up to 12 hours, totally unacceptable.