PRIVATE POWER TRADERS ROBBING, REPLACING ZESCO’S IMPORT AND EXPORT MARKET? PARTY 2

Mwamba you are really trying to stir a “pot of nshima” when there is nothing to stir.
The energy sector has several subsectors to begin with.
The fuel sector
The Power sector
Etc

The Open source measures that have been put in place, refer to the fuel importation process where we have seen fall in the price of fuel.

The power sector is currently structured differently. What we know and approved by ERB in the Public domain is private power generators including households have the ability to sell the power they generate to Zesco through the “Net Metering scheme”.

If there is a policy paper it has not been made public and stakeholders maybe discussing/brianstorming how best to improve the existing system and as such we have not seen a policy announcement from ERB.

Your usual too zealous nature and the love for limelight and bukachepa you are blubbering

1. Concepts you fail to articulate cause your informers are too eager to get paid for the half baked information being discussed in meetings of a private nature for political mileage.

2. There is nothing of substance that you have added other than list new players in the Private Prower producers.
Should you not be happy that these Private Power Producers will compliment whatever efforts Zesco is making? Yes, you want so sort of pat ob your backs. That Greenco as investors in the sector showed an interest in investing in Zambia with PF. Just like many investment concepts will only actualise when UPND leaves office (whether next year or 2030 or whenever). The point is that these projects should be of public interest. For the people of Zambia.

3. Mwamba understand how Zesco is structured. Generation, Transmission and Distibution. Where as the players you speak of are in the generation portion of the sector to compliment the deficit of power that has led to loadshedding. To transmit the power they generate they ride on the Zesco infrastructure.
So if they want to export, as in the case of CEC or what was the Power division of the old ZCCM. They would need to do it through Zesco infrastrure (powerlines).

I dont want to speculate. Previously we had Zesco solely involved in the building of transmission line and power stations.

To which Zesco has built up a large debt burden to finance this. Power export to countries around the region is one method that has been used to dismantle this debt.

Mostly because of Zesco tariff has been unsustainable to pay these loans and monies have misapplied as has been suggested in the previous regime. The tariff debate has more than adequately explained.

Given the interconnectors between countries so that power can be shared/sold between regional players, these need to be financed.

What you should be asking is who and how are these going to be financed?

Instead of getting loans, is the State and Zesco opting for the PPP model? Can Zesco afford to take on more debt? How was a decision arrived to use either the PPP model verses the debt model? How will the PPP model work if it comes out as the preferred model?

If the PPP model is being is used. How will Zesco recover the investment cost and over what period of time?
Bringing out what maybe a discussion by two or more parties to the PPP on the financing model maybe premature. Imagine if Mukitwa the former Ambassador was making public what he was discussing out into the public prematurely, before they were ready to come on the market.
Who brings who for the public good is material to Zambians.

MMD under Chiluba worked on the Debt cancellation, but it only came to fruition under Mwanawasa.

Given your record (Lungu led PF) and the bankrupt status that you left the state in; Mr. Mwamba, do you in your honest mind think that any of the opposition parties would build on what UPND is doing?

Do you for one minute realise that your international credibilty and confidence was Zero.

Who would trust you again?

Its only vultures who want to pillage Zambia would support you.

So what is this article really saying? Nothing. As usual just like your earlier article which the UNZA Russian trained don, had to clarify. As you were waffling.

You trying to articulate what you do not know nor understand so that the power issues are delayed, deterred, drag on, remain unresolved and to put in your slang ” put a spanner on it”. Cause you want to be seen to have worked on something. No serving Zambians but for you to gloat boast and stroke your ego. How self serving a group of people you are. This goes to all opposition parties that seem to make noise. That noise is only meant to detract. Delay development, postpone issues yet the needs of Zambians keep growing.
You want to be elected. You seek public office. To serve who? Who do you serve in all this?

ZESCO and Zamtel as Government Parastatals have the infrastructure and are Wheelers (Transmission). Zamtel allows private MTN and Airtel to use its infrastructure and the Customer ultimately benefits and also benefits Zamtel by giving it Competition and a “run for its money”. ZESCO is going the same way and the Customer will be the ultimate Winner. Can you imagine if FTJ didn’t liberalise the Passenger Transport Sector and restricted UBZ as the only Bus transport Company in Zambia, what would have been the situation now? So Mr Mwamba, as usual, is talking what he does best: “partisan negative Politics”. Government should just tighten its Regulatory Role, epela. ZESCO has been around for ages, why are they still in a financial mess, and why should a Citizen like me and a Customer continue suffering for their shoddy service, in the name of what?