ELECTRIFICATION RATE STILL LOW-REA

The Rural Electrification Authority -REA- is concerned that the electrification rate in Zambia has remained low no matter strides made in taking electrical energy to rural areas.
REA Chief Executive Officer Geoffrey Musonda says electrical energy accumulate entry to rate has remained at about Four.Four p.c for households connected to the national grid and 7.eight p.c for households having access to solar energy.
Pastor Musonda says this can’t be allowed to proceed and called for stakeholder partnerships.
He has attributed the low accumulate entry to rate in rural areas partly to excessive rate of connection charges which he says authorities is now subsidising.
Talking all the way via the signing ceremony of a Three-year Memorandum of Realizing with World Imaginative and prescient Zambia in Lusaka at the present time, Pastor MUSONDA famed that the partnership is geared toward rising uptake of electrical energy in rural communities.
He talked about the partnership is per REA’s mandate of accelerating accumulate entry to to electrical energy from 3l p.c in 2008 to Fifty one p.c by 2030.
And, World Imaginative and prescient Zambia Nationwide Director John Hasse talked about the faith basically based organisation will proceed supporting authorities in struggling with poverty and injustice in opposition to formative years.
He talked about sending energy to rural areas will protect thousands of families out of poverty because it improves the effectively being and schooling sectors while bettering financial actions.