{"id":83995,"date":"2023-10-02T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/electricity-supply-improves-as-zesa-completes-hwange-unit-8-maintenance"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:45:54","slug":"electricity-supply-improves-as-zesa-completes-hwange-unit-8-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/electricity-supply-improves-as-zesa-completes-hwange-unit-8-maintenance","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Supply Improves As ZESA Completes Hwange Unit 8 Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Energy and Power Development Minister Edgar Moyo said that electricity generation in the country has improved following the completion of maintenance works at Hwange Power Station\u2019s Unit 8 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with The Sunday News, Moyo said Hwange Unit 8 was under maintenance works for a number of weeks and this affected the electricity supply leading to power cuts. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Unit 8 at Hwange Power Station had been off for a while undergoing maintenance works.<\/p>\n<p>It is now back on line and this is why you realise that the electricity supply has improved.<\/p>\n<p>What we also have to understand is that at times we get frequent breakdowns or faults hence it might not be necessarily load-shedding.<\/p>\n<p>Load-shedding occurs when we have a mismatch in the supply of electricity and its demand.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo said the unavailability of Unit 8 forced the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to increase power generation at Kariba Hydro Power Station. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Our supply is not always constant; it depends on a lot of variables for example at Kariba Power Station we are now reducing productivity due to hydrology issues where water is now very low.<\/p>\n<p>We are trying to stretch power generation up to the end of the year. However, sometimes if one of the units at Hwange Power Station has a problem, we increase generation at Kariba.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if our units at Hwange are giving us good production, we reduce at Kariba to save water. So it\u2019s never a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>As government however, we remain committed to the provision of uninterrupted power supply in order to be able to drive the industrialisation agenda towards an upper-middle-income economy.<\/p>\n<p>From 01 September to 22 September, Kariba Power Station was producing up to 925 megawatts, which was significantly more than what Hwange Power Station was generating.<\/p>\n<p>However, from 23 September, power generation at Hwange improved with last Wednesday\u2019s production going up to 1008 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 02 October, Hwange was generating 970MW, Kariba was producing 611MW, and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were generating 21MW to give a total of 1 602MW.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s electricity consumption stands at above 1 800 megawatts.<\/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. Energy and Power Development Minister Edgar Moyo said that electricity generation in the country has improved following the completion of maintenance works at Hwange Power Station\u2019s Unit 8 last week. Speaking in an interview with The Sunday News, Moyo said Hwange Unit 8 was under maintenance works for a number of weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,4029,402,15334,2518,1541,14147,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-83995","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-edgar-moyo","12":"tag-electricity","13":"tag-hwange-unit-8","14":"tag-load-shedding","15":"tag-power-cuts","16":"tag-unit-8","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Electricity Supply Improves As ZESA Completes Hwange Unit 8 Maintenance - 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