{"id":16659,"date":"2019-12-12T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2019-12-12T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:34:07","slug":"eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available","title":{"rendered":"Eskom To Export Electricity To Zimbabwe Only If It Is Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom\u2019s chief operations officer, Jan Oberholzer, on Wednesday told reporters in South Africa that the power utility is presently exporting power to Zimbabwe and has entered recently entered into an agreement with ZESCO to export power to Zambia as well.<\/p>\n<p>Oberholzer further revealed that Eskom\u2019s agreements with ZESA and ZESCO are non-firm arrangements, which means that power is exported only if it is available. He said;<\/p>\n<p>We have contracts that we have signed, with Zesa of Zimbabwe and Zesco of Zambia. We do export specifically to Zimbabwe at this point in time. I do not know if we have started with Zesco.<\/p>\n<p>If Eskom needs the power, we do not export the power. The contracts have been signed as non-firm.<\/p>\n<p>The Eskom CEO was responding to a question about the conditions under which the power utility exports power to neighbouring states.<\/p>\n<p>ZESA, or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/ZESA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority<\/a>, and ZESCO are state power utilities in Zimbabwe and Zambia, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom\u2019s chief operations officer, Jan Oberholzer, on Wednesday told reporters in South Africa that the power utility is presently exporting power to Zimbabwe and has entered recently entered into an agreement with ZESCO to export power to Zambia as well. Oberholzer further revealed that Eskom\u2019s agreements with ZESA and ZESCO are non-firm arrangements, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[21,675,1153],"class_list":{"0":"post-16659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-eskom","10":"tag-zesa","11":"tag-zesco"},"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>Eskom To Export Electricity To Zimbabwe Only If It Is Available - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eskom\u2019s chief operations officer, Jan Oberholzer, on Wednesday told reporters in South Africa that the power utility is presently exporting power\" \/>\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\/eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eskom To Export Electricity To Zimbabwe Only If It Is Available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eskom\u2019s chief operations officer, Jan Oberholzer, on Wednesday told reporters in South Africa that the power utility is presently exporting power\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T16:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/Electricity-Lines-5df26a4c6fc88.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"770\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\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\/eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eskom-to-export-electricity-to-zimbabwe-only-if-it-is-available\",\"name\":\"Eskom To Export Electricity To Zimbabwe Only If It Is Available - 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