Zambia has surplus electricity – MAPANI

Sharon Siame – ZESCO says the country has achieved surplus electricity generation of 1156 megawatts.

This follows the successful commissioning of 4 by 150 megawatts generation capacity from the 750 megawatts at Kafue Gorge Lower Power Station.

ZESCO Managing Director, VICTOR MAPANI says currently the installed national generation capacity stands at over 3000 megawatts against a peak national demand of approximately 2300 megawatts.

Mr. MAPANI said this at a high-level Panel Discussion during the ongoing Association of Power Utilities of Africa -APUA- meeting in Dakar, Senegal.

He said ZESCO is using internally generated resources to progress the Kafue Gorge Lower power station project being constructed at a cost of approximately 2.3 billion United States Dollars.

Mr. MAPANI said the project is expected to be completed by November this year with the commissioning of the last 150 megawatts unit.

He said currently four out of the five units are already commissioned and running.

Mr. MAPANI said the surplus power is available for trade within the interconnected Southern Africa Power Pool network.

MEANWHILE, the ZESCO Chief said the power utility company hopes to exploit the transportation sub-sector through establishment of charging points nationwide to back the evolution of Electric Motor Vehicles.

This is contained in a statement released to ZNBC News in Lusaka today by the ZESCO Public Relations UNIT.

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