Zambians are likely to experience intense load-shedding from now as the country’s power distribution company, ZESCO Limited, has announced the unavailability 300MW of power imports from its neighbour, Mozambique.
This will affect power supply in the Southern African nation.
A statement issued by ZESCO Limited on Sunday attributed the unforeseen development to the shutdown of some of Mozambique’s power generating facilities.
“The power is sourced by ZESCO and independent power traders to cushion our power supply gap arising from the country’s drought induced hydropower generation deficit,” it said.
In view of this unfortunate development, ZESCO said it had instituted emergency load management measures that have affected the supply of the scheduled seven hours of power supply to its residential customers until the situation normalises.
ZESCO said it would monitor the situation and update its customers and the public as more information becomes available.
“The Corporation regrets the impact of this unplanned power import reduction and seeks our customers understanding and cooperation.
“In this period of emergency load management, customers are advised to strictly treat all power supply lines to be live at all times, as power supply schedules may change without prior notice,” the statement concluded.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com