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Electricity Supply Improves As ZESA Completes Hwange Unit 8 Maintenance

1 year agoMon, 02 Oct 2023 11:29:48 GMT
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Electricity Supply Improves As ZESA Completes Hwange Unit 8 Maintenance

Energy and Power Development Minister Edgar Moyo said that electricity generation in the country has improved following the completion of maintenance works at Hwange Power Station’s Unit 8 last week.

Speaking in an interview with The Sunday News, Moyo said Hwange Unit 8 was under maintenance works for a number of weeks and this affected the electricity supply leading to power cuts. He said:

Unit 8 at Hwange Power Station had been off for a while undergoing maintenance works.

It is now back on line and this is why you realise that the electricity supply has improved.

What we also have to understand is that at times we get frequent breakdowns or faults hence it might not be necessarily load-shedding.

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Load-shedding occurs when we have a mismatch in the supply of electricity and its demand.

Moyo said the unavailability of Unit 8 forced the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to increase power generation at Kariba Hydro Power Station. He said:

Our supply is not always constant; it depends on a lot of variables for example at Kariba Power Station we are now reducing productivity due to hydrology issues where water is now very low.

We are trying to stretch power generation up to the end of the year. However, sometimes if one of the units at Hwange Power Station has a problem, we increase generation at Kariba.

On the other hand, if our units at Hwange are giving us good production, we reduce at Kariba to save water. So it’s never a straight line.

As government however, we remain committed to the provision of uninterrupted power supply in order to be able to drive the industrialisation agenda towards an upper-middle-income economy.

From 01 September to 22 September, Kariba Power Station was producing up to 925 megawatts, which was significantly more than what Hwange Power Station was generating.

However, from 23 September, power generation at Hwange improved with last Wednesday’s production going up to 1008 megawatts.

On Monday, 02 October, Hwange was generating 970MW, Kariba was producing 611MW, and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were generating 21MW to give a total of 1 602MW.

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Zimbabwe’s electricity consumption stands at above 1 800 megawatts.

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21 Comments

Chi Baby Che ZANU · 1 year ago
Kuno kuEpwerth magetsi tinawo haasi kumboenda
Bvepfepfe · 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Magetsi yesterday ayingo dzima dzima in Mount Pleasant Harare wani. There were power cuts. Saka vese vari kuti magetsi anga asiri kudzima pliz grow up. Zanu yamunoda iyo doesn't care about you ana Boss Wiwi
Muzondi Maposvo · 1 year ago
problem yenyu pano kunonyepa chete magetsi these days haasi kuenda ari kutodhura especially pa cash power tiri kuchemera kuti atomboenda zvawo
😲😲😲 · 1 year ago
Nhai mukuru? Asi munogara muZimbabwe yose kani? Rokesheni yamunogara handiyo nyika yose. Kune dzimwe nzvimbo magetsi kuenda. Musapupure zvaitika kwamusina kuswera.
maparamuro · 1 year ago
Newly installed and commissioned unit 8 required maintenance after just two months. ichokwadi here ichi
NoWatts · 1 year ago
Today zesa was off for 12hrs.
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Isu kuno ku Chitwn tinawo. Hameno ikoko ku Highfields kwenyu. Pamwe i fault iwe ku Highfields.
Pipiro · 1 year ago
Lies no zesa since yesterday so improvement yacho iri papi its better to keep quiet than utter lies
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Anorwara Edgar Moyo iyezvino ndapedza 2 days ndisina magetsi mu HIGHFIELD.......
Chivhu resident · 1 year ago
kuno magetsi haaende maybe coz it's a small town
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Units 7 and 8 were commissioned by the president on the 4th of August 2023 that's about two months ago Unit 8is already undergoing maintenance 🤔🤔🤔
Zuze · 1 year ago
Zhing Zhong. FAW - For A Week
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Yes zhing Zhong .... now zesa heavily in debt
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
I want to thank ZESA for updating citizens on the production of electricity. However, why does ZESA update citizens late. If this information is meant for update, it must come before or during the time it is happening. ZESA must improve its image by doing minute things. This is my story and I am sticking to it. [ THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC ].
👁️ 👃 👁️ · 1 year ago
i work the as it is am at work feeding the boiler bunkers with coal. yes it is true unit 8 was down for the past 3 weeks but we resumed operation last week. But what this minister is saying i can confirm that he is uttering nonsense
Unbelievable · 1 year ago
Yes, today Monday power has been off for 7hrs so far. Lies lies and more lies.
nc · 1 year ago
improvement ipi iko kusina magetsi afumoenda kuseni totozo mawana manheru
Tk · 1 year ago
Ummmm hayaaa
🌚🌚🌚🌚🇱🇷🇺🇦 · 1 year ago
That place that is said to have improvement in terms electricity is definitely not in Zimbabwe since we still indure 19 hours without electricity.
Anonymous · 1 year ago

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