ZAMBIA Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO) has reduced load shedding from eight to four hours per day due to due to the increase of water levels in the rivers.
In a statement to the Media, ZESCO Senior Manager for Marketing and Public Relations Bessie Banda has said that the improvement in water levels in the rivers and the importation of power has decreased the power deficit that ZESCO was facing.
“ZESCO limited would like to inform its esteemed customers and the general public that following the improvement of water inflows at Itezhi tezhi dam, ZESCO is now able to generate at full capacity of 120 MW. This development, coupled with the increase in imports has made it possible for ZESCO to reduce loadshedding from 8 to 4 hours daily,” Ms Banda said.
She said added that load shedding would ease even further as ZESCO continued to commission projects that were near completion.
“ZESCO wishes to inform is customers and the general public that load shedding will ease even further as we continue to commission the projects that are nearing completion,” Ms Banda
pure lie very soon after august election there will be hot season coming hence reasons that loadshedding is back because its too hot and the dam is drying. This whole thing is a lie shame on them fake politicians will not inherit the kingdom of God.
We had 9 hrs of load shedding in Riverside yes. Is someone playing with us.
Is Kitwe’s Riverside area also included as we are still having 9 hrs of load shedding a day
Funny enough Pungwa Crescent where i live is believed to be where the Zesco Area Manager lives. Living by example i guess
This is a fucked up campaign strategy, don’t we know, o yes we do. Don’t think your strategy will work out for you this time around, because that’s what you did in January, 2015, immediately after u won we saw ZESCO loadshedding us to unprecedented hours, something you want to repeat immediately after you’ve won, no ways. So our votes, fellows, should be for change of regime – UPND and HH. PF and Lungu OUT!!!!!
After messing up our Turbines, they want to think they are doing us a favour by the so called reduction in hours of power shedding. Do they understand the cost implications of one hour without power? Our company loses $200,000 worth of production in an hour without power. Wait until you start importing Jigis from Tanzania.
It’s not good enough, we want a free load-shedding Zambia as it used to be! No amount of sweet-talk will satisfy us.
We don’t want any load shedding. Power is needed through out like the way it was before Chagwa became president. PF needs to put power back 100% KWATA!
Thank you ZESCO we welcome the development through the PF govt. Viva ECL.
Load shedding is caused by PF exporti g electricity to Zim and Congo then pocketing the loot.
For now they have asked Zim and Congo to bear with them until elections are over, thats why load shedding is coming down. A few weeks before elections it will even come down to zero.
Fellow Zambians do not be fooled by PF antics.
VOTE WISELY FOR UPND ANH THE HH TEAM FOR A BETTER ZAMBIA.