Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba writes
Namibians mock Zambia!
Despite the worst load-shedding in 60 years and the population only receiving power for 5hrs or less a day, ZESCO finds power to export to Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower), Namibia and Botswana Power Corporation, Botswana.
Despite load-shedding its customers for 19hrs-a-day, ZESCO finds a dedicated average of 190 mega watts to export to the region.
Sometimes the power shortages are so critical that at peak times, ZESCO imports Power from Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Mozambique, to sustain basic supply and also meet power exports.
Sadly it’s now using power traders as intermediaries for these imports snd exports.
I told you that the real winners for these solar projects are our neighbouring countries. Hakainde is making sure that all SADC countries, except Zambia, can have uninterrupted electricity 24 hours a day all year round.
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Clearly, Mr. Mwamba does not understand what he is talking about. Zambia’s current power deficit is 1,100MW, meaning the 100MW that was just commissioned is only 9% of the deficit. To put it in perspective, if we are having 10 hours of loadshedding with a 1,100MW deficit, 100MW will only save less than 1 hour, and even less since the loadshedding is more than 10 hours. Now, which one would be more important business-wise, save 1 hour or just a few minutes of loadshedding for the local customer, and lose the export customer, or keep the export customer and allow the local customer to wait a little bit longer for a more meaningful power supply?
Industries are suffering please look into this matter seriously we are tired
Imwe ba straight Forward, There is nowhere on earth where a producer prioritises export contracts over local consumption. Have you ever heard of AMERICA FIRST?