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The power blackouts announced by South Africa\u2019s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will exacerbate power shortages in neighbouring Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Eskom\u2019s cuts will affect imports that Zimbabwe receives from Africa\u2019s largest power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Co. said on Twitter Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The southern African nation has a non-binding agreement to import up to 400 megawatts from Eskom, while an additional 100 megawatts is imported from Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The availability of power from utilities with which Zimbabwe has power-purchase agreements has an impact on the performance of the national grid, especially at a time when the country is experiencing a deficit, Zesa Holdings spokesman Fullard Gwasira said by text message. \u201cThe corresponding decline in imports will be reflected in increased load shedding,\u201d he said, using the local term for rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n

Blackouts in Zimbabwe already last as much as 18 hours a day and the country spends $23 million monthly on electricity imports, according to the energy regulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The power blackouts announced by South Africa\u2019s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will exacerbate power shortages in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Eskom\u2019s cuts will affect imports that Zimbabwe receives from Africa\u2019s largest power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Co. said on Twitter Wednesday. The southern African nation has a non-binding agreement to import up to 400 megawatts from Eskom, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[402,582,914],"class_list":{"0":"post-14791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"category-head-lines","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-energy-and-power","12":"tag-zimbabwe-power-company"},"yoast_head":"\nZim starts further power cuts due to Eskom outages - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The power blackouts announced by South Africa\u2019s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will exacerbate power shortages in neighbouring Zimbabwe.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-starts-further-power-cuts-due-to-eskom-outages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zim starts further power cuts due to Eskom outages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The power blackouts announced by South Africa\u2019s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will exacerbate power shortages in neighbouring Zimbabwe.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-starts-further-power-cuts-due-to-eskom-outages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-16T16:57:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-16T16:57:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/Zesa-power-cuts.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-starts-further-power-cuts-due-to-eskom-outages\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-starts-further-power-cuts-due-to-eskom-outages\",\"name\":\"Zim starts further power cuts due to Eskom outages - 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