Zambia to import electricity from Eskom to plug severe deficit

[Jopie Fourie]

Zambia will import electricity from South Africa starting next month to help plug a severe deficit that’s causing daily power cuts lasting about eight hours, according to the acting managing director of the power utility in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer.

State-owned Zesco concluded talks with Eskom last week to buy as much as 300 megawatts for six months, Webster Musonda told reporters in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. The country has a shortfall of 700 megawatts, about a third of peak demand, after drought curbed output at the hydropower stations that it depends on for 80% of generation.

Zambia to import electricity from Eskom to plug severe deficit | Business

The country needs to help plug a severe deficit that’s causing daily power cuts lasting about eight hours.

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[Jopie Fourie]

Time to dust off those generators and filling them....

 

[Milano]

Selling at R328m per month.

 

[Gordon_R]

I think Zimbabwe got a cheaper deal (non guaranteed supply). Both countries take power from Kariba Dam, which is critically low. See: https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...–-and-it-could-be-bad-news-for-eskom.1042879/

 

[lkswan747]

Roll on Load Shedding, E SCUM can barely keep our lights on so how the hell does this work?

 

[cavedog]

Yeah no problem with this. Eskom needs the money so cut Soweto's power and export it to Zambia

 

[Fulcrum29]

Yeah no problem with this. Eskom needs the money so cut Soweto's power and export it to Zambia

Sowetophobia. Get with the times.

 

[MidnightWizard]

Zambia to import electricity from Eskom to plug severe deficit | Business

The country needs to help plug a severe deficit that’s causing daily power cuts lasting about eight hours.

www.fin24.com

Chinese need the power for their mining operations ( copper and others )

No, China is not taking over Zambia’s national electricity supplier. Not yet, anyway.

The Chinese seem to be the only ones that still have some money -- to throw around ....
They DO like their pound of flesh though ( just like SHYLOCK )

 

[neoprema]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

 

[Jola]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

Does anyone need to ask this question ?

 

[ForceFate]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

Most of Zambia's electricity capacity comes from hydroelectricity generation afaik. Mozambique as well? Wind? Do we have that much wind except in spring?

 

[Mila]

We have so much sun.
Really.
Its not as if they will run out of that soon.
They also have coal mines, owned by the Chinese, If they had some kind of sense they could have developed it themselves

 

[ForceFate]

We have so much sun.
Really.
Its not as if they will run out of that soon.
They also have coal mines, owned by the Chinese, If they had some kind of sense they could have developed it themselves

Drought causing some of the problems currently.

 

[ProfA]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

I have highlighted the answer to your question.

 

[Solarion]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

 

[neoprema]

They should get together and build a central African power hub. Where 1 entity (not owned by anyone in Africa or with Govt ties) builds a few really really big power stations (hydro, coal, nuclear etc) in an area that is not considered anyone's sovereign state - so that land is given up and becomes private. Then you feed power from there across the continent and bill it out as a business. You pay, you get power, you dont - you don't get power. And you privatise it 101% so no government has say.
Then you not also make it private but like an NGO and any profit after keeping for R&D and other risks gets pumped back into education into the sciences across Africa. I would like to see something like that.
Country's can also pay by minerals needed for the power stations (whether nuclear, hydro etc) which offsets some of the electricity costs which in turn can become free electricity for their residents.

 

[thestaggy]

How is it Africa cannot generate enough power!? We're sitting in oodles of natural resources, oodles of sunshine and tons of coastline, rivers and dams!? Nevermind Wind...

Because African leaders care about one thing; themselves.

To heck with developing and maintaining infrastructure and building for the future. Its all about eating now and for yourself and making sure you loot enough to ensure that you can maintain that lifestyle once you are no longer in power/in politics.