Speaking at a handover ceremony at Mucheke Old People’s Home, where Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) installed six 200-litre solar water heaters worth $15 000, Energy and Power Development permanent secretary Patson Mbiriri revealed that Government is working on a legal framework to ban electric water geysers and replace them with solar geysers to cut energy costs.
Said Mbiriri:
Currently, we have around 140 000 electric geysers installed countrywide. The objective of the ban is to save power and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as electric geysers use approximately 40% of electricity consumed at household level. Let me emphasise further that consultations on the regulations prohibiting electric geysers are still underway with relevant stakeholders. The regulations, if approved, will be mandatory on all new installations to be connected to the national grid. The regulations will, however, exempt building structures that are not possible, technically, to have a solar water geyser installed such as residential high rise flats.
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