Zesa blackout sparks outrage (ZIMBABWE)

[schumi]

Harare residents yesterday said heads must roll at Zesa after the beleaguered parastatal released a load-shedding schedule that will see most households going without electricity for 18 hours a day.

BY WINSTONE ANTONIO

Zesa blamed the rolling blackouts on low water levels at Kariba Dam, which have affected electricity generation and breakdowns at Hwange Power Station.

Thomas Dutiro of Sunningdale said the increased load-shedding was due to mismanagement at Zesa.

“Certain people at Zesa are busy making their pockets fat, ignoring [the fact] that some machines in Hwange and Kariba need maintenance. As long as they do not reduce their wage bills to channel funds towards working to reduce load-shedding, Zimbabwe is going to be in total darkness,” said Dutiro.

Luke Ndabatei of Glen Norah said Zesa’s monopoly was to blame for the crisis.

“Our biggest problem has been lack of planning on the part of authorities, while those sitting at offices claiming to be managers at Zesa do nothing other than take fat pay cheques home every month,” he said.

“Rather than take us through this excruciating pain, government should allow private players to tap into our abundant sunshine to provide solar energy.”

Jacob Kamutsenzere of Hatfield blamed the government, saying officials slept on the job.

“Zimbabwe is in a total mess. This is a crisis that reflects the situation in every other sector in the country,” he said.

“The challenge is that our leadership lacks focus and they concentrate on the wrong issues altogether. Zimbabwe has abundant sunshine and solar panels were invented ages ago. There are several solar panel manufacturing companies in the world, half of which would jump at a chance to invest in Zimbabwe, but we have fickle policy implementation.”

Since 2007, the country has been experiencing increased load-shedding and unscheduled power supply disruptions countrywide, resulting in many Zimbabweans spending hours in the dark.

According to the latest load-shedding schedule, most residential areas will go from 4am to 10pm without power.

more at http://www.thestandard.co.zw/2015/09/27/zesa-blackout-sparks-outrage/

 

[Seriously]

LOL. All this sounds very familiar. We won as It Took Mugabe and kie 40+ years but Zuma and kie will beat them with only 20+.

 

[grok]

Certain people at Zesa are busy making their pockets fat, ignoring [the fact] that some machines in Hwange and Kariba need maintenance.

The story of Africa..

 

[Hemi300c]

Coming to a country near you shortly.

 

[schumi]

Zimbabwe announces plans to ban electrical geysers

HARARE - As a power crisis bites in in Zimbabwe, the authorities have announced plans to ban all electric geysers.

Zimbabwe’s power stations are generating less than half of the national daily power requirement and the authorities have unveiled a punishing new load-shedding plan.

This is a drastic measure and it shows just how bad the power-generation situation is in Zimbabwe.

A senior official in the energy ministry told the state-run Chronicle that electric geysers consume 40 percent of household energy.

More at http://ewn.co.za/2015/09/25/Zimbabwe-announces-plans-to-ban-electrical-geysers

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

The story of Africa..

The dark continents pride ........ All of it eventually goes the way of the rest.

 

[Stokstert]

Don't worry Bob, your big mate JZ will help you as normal even if we have no power ourselves.

 

[grok]

Don't worry Bob, your big mate JZ will help you as normal even if we have no power ourselves.

Saw him on the front page of the Star (I think) begging support from the rich northern hemisphere countries.

Does Africa have no pride?

 

[Gnome]

Yesterday, the state-run power company published a new load-shedding schedule, which will see many suburbs going for up to 18 hours a day without power.

Something tells me they are somewhat not so drastically hinting at those suburbs to secure their own power and go off-grid.

Does Africa have no pride?

Not sure if this is a rhetorical question...

 

[Kingofmybbknowitalls]

All you people making snarky comments should remember that it takes one phone call by the right person(s) to shunt power from SA to Zim.

As if SA has reserve capacity.

In the end the SA taxpayer have to carry this burden, and Zim's leaders can continue to do as they please.

 

[ToxicBunny]

All you people making snarky comments should remember that it takes one phone call by the right person(s) to shunt power from SA to Zim.

As if SA has reserve capacity.

In the end the SA taxpayer have to carry this burden, and Zim's leaders can continue to do as they please.

And we also know that all the agreements in place are for "reserve" capacity sharing over and above a predetermined baseload supply that we give to Zim... They can't just willy nilly shunt power to Zim that we don't have.

 

[Gezza]

Electricity is a western thing anyway. Who needs it?

 

[Sinbad]

And we also know that all the agreements in place are for "reserve" capacity sharing over and above a predetermined baseload supply that we give to Zim... They can't just willy nilly shunt power to Zim that we don't have.

They'll bloody try, I'm sure.
AU brotherhood scratching each others' backs.

Someone needs to erase the power lines between us and them.

 

[ToxicBunny]

They'll bloody try, I'm sure.
AU brotherhood scratching each others' backs.

Someone needs to erase the power lines between us and them.

As much as I dislike Eskom currently, I'm pretty damn sure that they wouldn't endanger our own grid just to give Zim power....

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Sugar bowl syndrome.

 

[Sinbad]

As much as I dislike Eskom currently, I'm pretty damn sure that they wouldn't endanger our own grid just to give Zim power....

Zim's peak load is probably only a couple of GW.
So they could put in stage 1 loadshedding here and supply zim.
Don't underestimate the persuasive power of the cancer paymasters on the people they have under their thrall.

*edit

Gen Station
28 September 2015
Energy
(Megawatts)
Hwange 536 MW
Kariba 475 MW
Harare 20 MW
Munyati 26 MW
Bulawayo 17 MW
Imports 0 MW
Total

1077 MW

From ZESA's page.

They're a lot more transparent than ekskom...

 

[Sonic2k]

As much as I dislike Eskom currently, I'm pretty damn sure that they wouldn't endanger our own grid just to give Zim power....

You would be surprised... they do indeed get power from us.... whether we have or not, they simply turn off the rich areas first...

 

[ToxicBunny]

You would be surprised... they do indeed get power from us.... whether we have or not, they simply turn off the rich areas first...

I'm fully aware they get power from us, there would be a power sharing agreement in place...

BUT, what I am saying, is that a simple call is not all that is required for us to shunt more power to Zim.... the stability of our grid is paramount to Eskom, otherwise they wouldn't be able to share power at all or distribute it to us.

 

[TheSlinger]

You would be surprised... they do indeed get power from us.... whether we have or not, they simply turn off the rich areas first...

I have heard that this is been going on for a long time. And that Zim is paying next to (if any) nothing for it. While our prices continue to increase.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I have heard that this is been going on for a long time. And that Zim is paying next to (if any) nothing for it. While our prices continue to increase.

Its been in place for decades.... Even back into the Apartheid era...