News:Zesa says the country has not experienced load shedding for 9 months. Explains recent power outages
<vote /> Zesa spokesperson Mr Fullard Gwasira said the country had not experienced load shedding in the past nine months. He went on to explain that the recent power outages were a result of vandalism or maintenance work.
Gwasira said,
All the power outages that are being experienced by some consumers are a result of theft and vandalism to transformers and equipment failure due to age and obsolescence. Electricity networks are sometimes deliberately switched off as a result of planned maintenance, of which customers are notified of this in the media beforehand. Sometimes the network is also switched off to enable staff to repair sudden faults but there hasn’t been any load shedding. In some cases, ZETDC had been experiencing an upsurge in cases of theft and vandalism wherein transformers had been the prime target with perpetrators draining oil or completely damaging them, with affected customers having to go for prolonged periods without electricity. ZETDC appeals to the affected consumers to bear with us while replacement works of the damaged equipment are being carried out.
Gwasira also said the Dema emergency power plant was now contributing 100MW to the national grid, a development that had stabilised the power supply situation.
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