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Zesa to reduce load shedding to 8 hours from 16 hours
29 Jul 2019 at 20:26hrs | Views
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) is expected to reduce its load shedding to at least eight hours from the current 16 hours after treasury made available an additional 200MW through the Day-Ahead-Market (DAM).
Zimbabwe is a member of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) which allows electricity trading between SADC member states and participation in the SAPP market.
According to FinX, Secretary for Energy and Power Development, Gloria Magombo, told an energy breakfast meeting held in Harare today that the additional capacity would see the power situation improving slightly.
"We are going to be picking up an additional 200MW which has been made available through the support from the Ministry of Finance through the DAM. It's going to increase as we restore value to ZESA so that we will improve sooner."
She said with the additional capacity, ZESA Holdings would need to adjust its tariff so that there is sustainability of supply. "We will want to bring in additional capacity which will be obviously at a higher cost. This is immediate, so it will happen very soon, I can't give you the date for now, but I think is happening as we speak right now," she said.
Zesa is seeking Government approval for customers to pay the interbank rate equivalent of the 9.86 US cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) tariff.
The country has installed capacity of 2 260MW at its ZESA owned power stations. However, the ZESA has been generating about 900MW against a peak demand this winter of 1800MW resulting in load shedding.
Zimbabwe is a member of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) which allows electricity trading between SADC member states and participation in the SAPP market.
According to FinX, Secretary for Energy and Power Development, Gloria Magombo, told an energy breakfast meeting held in Harare today that the additional capacity would see the power situation improving slightly.
"We are going to be picking up an additional 200MW which has been made available through the support from the Ministry of Finance through the DAM. It's going to increase as we restore value to ZESA so that we will improve sooner."
She said with the additional capacity, ZESA Holdings would need to adjust its tariff so that there is sustainability of supply. "We will want to bring in additional capacity which will be obviously at a higher cost. This is immediate, so it will happen very soon, I can't give you the date for now, but I think is happening as we speak right now," she said.
Zesa is seeking Government approval for customers to pay the interbank rate equivalent of the 9.86 US cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) tariff.
The country has installed capacity of 2 260MW at its ZESA owned power stations. However, the ZESA has been generating about 900MW against a peak demand this winter of 1800MW resulting in load shedding.
Source - Byo24News
