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ZESCO Explains Saturday Countrywide Power Outage
ZESCO has attributed the system disturbance that resulted in the lose of power in the early hours of today in all provinces of the country except for Lusaka to tripling of all three 330kv lines at its Leopards Hill substation in Lusaka.
ZESCO spokesperson Henry Kapata has disclosed to Qfm News that his company believes the three 330kv lines tripped as a result of a fault at its Kabwe step down substation.
Mr. Kapata states that the fault in Kabwe was however rectified around 05:00hrs in the morning and that the restoration power to the rest of the parts of the country begun at 05:48hrs.
He has also disclosed that South province also lost power as result of lose of generation of power at Victoria Falls power station and the tripling of the 220kv line that runs from Muzuma substation in Choma into Kafue town substation.
Mr. Kapata says the restoration of power in Southern Province begun at 02:25hrs.
He states that ZESCO apologizes for the inconvenience this may have caused and has since launched an investigation to ascertain the cause of the fault.
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engineer without borderz
October 11, 2015 at 7:49 am
imwe na imwe ba tumfweko/tunwemo,there is no ”tripling”….it is tripping…….if it tripled do you mean the voltage became 990kv?
Do some some research on electrical terms before you publish plizzzz
Chagwa
October 11, 2015 at 7:16 pm
LOSE of power…trppling??? What kind of journalists are these mwebantu sure?
cs
October 11, 2015 at 8:18 am
This explanation is not good enough, we all know a system can trip when there is a system disturbance, but a system disturbance always has a cause. Zesco should explain what caused this disturbance
ImBeautifulAndILikeIt
October 11, 2015 at 12:00 pm
They can not explain they have cadres there who are guessing what they are doing.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 11, 2015 at 8:23 am
What is there to explain? We know that it’s due to pfsincompetence of employing pf cadres at zesco
mz
October 11, 2015 at 8:45 am
This is the consistent incompetence HH was talking about on friday…employing cadred at Zesco. We will investigate…kkkk what investigation.? just sit home and enjoy your money…
Osward
October 11, 2015 at 9:44 am
Ukuyaya kwafimalaiti tenshitafye yonse pa Zambia?It has become normal though it is very abnormal.
The real one
October 11, 2015 at 9:52 am
Africans I think we are still monkeys 51 years of independence u still rely almost in one source of electric power.
ImBeautifulAndILikeIt
October 11, 2015 at 12:04 pm
what’s there to explain when load shedding is an everyday occurrence.
Shi ali
October 11, 2015 at 12:06 pm
Wats dere 2 investigate???
KILLA D
October 11, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Every stupid continent has its stupid country which has its stupid president who has employed his stupid cadres to run a state company and always has a stupid reason for every stupid moment thy fail.
dangerous
October 11, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Anyone with a small pin charger pls
Silencer
October 11, 2015 at 1:46 pm
Zesco has always a full package of excuses only that this time they have spared innocent animals and birds.
One wwonders what investigations Kapata is talking about when he has already explained the cause of the power outage.
These PF cadres are not taking us anywhere.
Famous idiot!...
October 11, 2015 at 3:12 pm
@Killa D,wandepaula mune hahahaha yaba.
Dolika
October 11, 2015 at 6:19 pm
Even nature is not happy with these proper fools (PF)
kalampa
October 11, 2015 at 6:24 pm
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intelligent sia
October 11, 2015 at 7:59 pm
Iyo mwaliba bitter ba upnd! Remember you will reap what you sow.unfortunately ifwe pa lubemba ni pf 2016 and beyond.while u sit idle and complain we will be swallowing our saliva.
Gorgeous
October 11, 2015 at 9:50 pm
Chitundu – mundende
ngoza reloaded
October 12, 2015 at 6:38 am
When you employ Judge Ngoma this is what you reap, truly HH hit the nail on the head.