ZESCO LIMITED POWER GENERATION UPDATE
Lusaka, 24 June 2024 –
ZESCO Limited is experiencing significant difficulties to balance the available power supply with demand due to the adverse El Niño effects. This has drastically suppressed hydro power generation at its major power stations.
To supplement this reduced power generation, ZESCO is taking up 105 Megawatts of power from Ndola Energy, importing up to 188W Megawatts from Mozambique and has gone further to reduce power exports from 520MW in February to 281MW in June, 2024.
However, the total available power of 1,268MW still falls short of the demand of 2,216MW (June 2024).
Further, the Corporation is prioritising critical loads to sustain industry, agriculture and essential services.
Owing to the above, the Corporation has to deploy emergency load management measures to sustain the power system.
The above scenario entails that ZESCO will have to ration power outside the planned timings.
The present power generating status is as follows:
- Kafue Gorge:
372MW against capacity of 990MW - Kafue Gorge Lower: 179MW against installed capacity of 750MW
- Kariba North Bank: 98MW against installed capacity of 1,080MW
- ItezhiTezhi PC:
34MW against installed capacity of 120MW - Ndola Energy:
105MW - Others Combined: 480MW
ZESCO regrets the inconvenience caused.
Issued By
CORPORATE AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
What are you trying to communicate ba Zesco? You are playing with words. Don’t hide behind vague words.. Tell us the number of hours this emergency load management will add to the Load shedding timings.
From the time Sata removed real Engineers from ZESCO, all we have now are small technician who can only play with Switches. It’s on / off, ati munthu ayenda kunchito?
Zambia’s real Engineers are not even in the country! They are where they are valued most!
Just disband this ZESCO thing or downsize it or Privatize it!
One of the first things that
must be done is to stop any exports of power immediately.
The second course of action is to import more power to meet the local demand.
The situation where some areas go without power for more than 15 hours in a day is unacceptable.
The ONLY way is to GO SOLAR WAY. White people KNOW THAT AFRICA has MASSIVE SUNLIGHT ☀️ that we can use to generate EXCESS ELECTRICITY but they don’t want us to. Them they can use NUCLEAR ENERGY which is RISKY in case of an accident.
Us we are SAFEST PLANET because we can’t use NUCLEAR ENERGY. SOLAR energy is enough for AFRICA.