Zambia: Zesco Staggers Load Shedding Outage Period

Zambia’s power utility company, Zesco Limited, has restructured its load shedding exercise by staggering each outage to a minimum of six-hour period.

The company said it will stagger the current 12 hours’ load shedding exercise into six-hour intervals with a 6-hour break.

“The changed schedules are intended to provide customers some relief and will take effect on Monday, 9th January 2023 until further notice,” a statement issued by the company said.

Zesco encouraged customers to look out for updated load shedding schedules in the print media and its website for regular updates.

As a safety precaution, Zesco advised customers to treat all supply lines to be live as power may be restored before the schedule time.

The company commenced load shedding exercise last Tuesday 3rd January 2023 owing to the reduced water levels in the Kariba Reservoir for electricity generation at the Kariba North Bank Power Station.

Source: https://energynewsafrica.com