{"id":15650,"date":"2019-11-06T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2019-11-06T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:25:22","slug":"zesa-gives-update-on-load-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zesa-gives-update-on-load-shedding","title":{"rendered":"ZESA Gives Update On Load-Shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s warning that power cuts would be increased\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.pindula.co.zw\/2019\/11\/03\/zesa-announces-increased-load-shedding\/\">due to the tripping of three generator units at Hwange Power Station,<\/a>\u00a0local power utility, ZESA has announced that load shedding is now back to stage 1 which entails about 8 hours of power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>ZESA had upgraded load-shedding to stage 2 which is characterised by 18 hours of power cuts. Confirming the development to the Daily News on Tuesday, Zesa Holdings spokesperson, Fullard Gwasira said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"7ppG4oCA amp-wp-1267f15\">\n<p>We have reverted back to stage one load shedding. Two units were restored on Sunday while the third unit was restored yesterday (Monday) evening.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe has a huge power deficit which is attributed to shrinking water levels at Kariba dam and ageing equipment at Hwange Thermal Power Station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last week\u2019s warning that power cuts would be increased\u00a0due to the tripping of three generator units at Hwange Power Station,\u00a0local power utility, ZESA has announced that load shedding is now back to stage 1 which entails about 8 hours of power cuts. ZESA had upgraded load-shedding to stage 2 which is characterised by 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[546,670,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-15650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-hwange","10":"tag-kariba","11":"tag-zesa"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ZESA Gives Update On Load-Shedding - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/zesa-gives-update-on-load-shedding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZESA Gives Update On Load-Shedding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following last week\u2019s warning that power cuts would be increased\u00a0due to the tripping of three generator units at Hwange Power Station,\u00a0local power utility, ZESA has announced that load shedding is now back to stage 1 which entails about 8 hours of power cuts. 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