Zambia: Load-shedding beckons, FiT tariff to follow

The country’s difficult electricity supply situation will see load-shedding over the next two months, deputy energy, mines and water Charles Mathias Zulu said in Dubai on 9 June. Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (Zesco) is expected to reduce its output by 300MW in June and by the same amount in July, he said, cutting maximum generation capacity to around 1.6GW – insufficient to meet the projected 1.9GW peak. “So we will be experiencing load-shedding,” Zulu told the Africa Energy Forum (AEF).