{"id":70814,"date":"2022-12-12T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/former-zesa-ceo-speaks-on-the-causes-of-the-electricity-crisis"},"modified":"2022-12-12T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:04:07","slug":"former-zesa-ceo-speaks-on-the-causes-of-the-electricity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/former-zesa-ceo-speaks-on-the-causes-of-the-electricity-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Former ZESA CEO Speaks On The Causes Of The Electricity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Former <b>Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA)<\/b> chief executive officer, Engineer <b>Joshua Chifamba<\/b> has blamed unfavourable tariffs for sinking the nation into the current electricity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks when Zimbabwe is experiencing a huge power deficit that has seen both households and industry enduring 18 or more hours-long power cuts which authorities have attributed to declining water levels at Kariba Dam. NewsZimbabwe.com cites him as saying:<\/p>\n<p>Kariba would thus change its operating regime &amp; the wholesale price of electricity would be reduced, as imported peaking power was coming in at USc45\/kWh, against a retail tariff of USc9\/kWh.<\/p>\n<p>This change was never supposed to be a threat to water in Kariba that it has become.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited, with the same capacity as ZESA at Kariba; but unlike ZESA having leverage to operate according to the new operating regime; after having built new power stations; has kept within its water allocation. It\u2019s that simple!<\/p>\n<p>So, the addition of generators at Kariba is not, in and of itself, the cause of the water problem at Kariba.<\/p>\n<p>Issues in the sector have been left unresolved for far too long! The main Achilles heel have been sub economic tariffs and a challenging economic environment.<\/p>\n<p>Chifamba said outside peak time, output at Kariba was supposed to reduce, to allow for increased output at peak.<\/p>\n<p>Economists have since warned that should the electricity crisis continue unresolved, efforts made to revive the ailing economy will soon be reversed due to erratic productivity.<\/p>\n<p>The government has however made some interventions which include revamping ZESA\u2019s institutional sustainability and tabling plans for further expansion of the power generation capacity among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Former Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) chief executive officer, Engineer Joshua Chifamba has blamed unfavourable tariffs for sinking the nation into the current electricity crisis. He speaks when Zimbabwe is experiencing a huge power deficit that has seen both households and industry enduring 18 or more hours-long power cuts which authorities have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,13130,2935,12971,19,4646,13038],"class_list":{"0":"post-70814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-josh-chifamba","12":"tag-kariba-dam","13":"tag-kariba-south-hydropower-station","14":"tag-zimbabwe","15":"tag-zimbabwe-electricity-supply-authority-zesa","16":"tag-zimbabwe-load-shedding"},"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>Former ZESA CEO Speaks On The Causes Of The Electricity Crisis - 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