ZESCO

So we are working with some of our financing houses here, the DBSA, IDC, South African Power Pool, to ensure that we build that capacity capacity to improve the regional interconnectors.

On the other side of the interconnector, we have a buyer and most of those buyers facilitated through Zesco in this instance are the mines.

How do they produce now? They are relying on diesel.

They burn diesel.

So basically, the grid is now available to any IPP or trader to utilize.

It's still owned by the national utility, the transmission infrastructure, the core transmission infrastructure is owned by Zesco.

But because we're in this environment where there's been a deficit of power generation, that infrastructure at a fee.

So a wheeling cost is available to any producer of power that has a customer who's demanding that power.

Yeah.

Before you blame El Niño, blame everything that happens with the mismanagement of ZESCO.

Brian, your comments.

Ambassador, once again, the cholera issue, uh, for me, it, it means that, um, government is really, really failing to, to, to, to keep its own promises.

Load shedding is likely going to come.

Power exports will probably be reinstated or have been reinstated because we saw so many notices from Zesco alleging that there'll be no power in Makeni.

I received so many notifications, you know, or there'll be no power in Kafiwe because Zesco is undertaking routine maintenance.

Remember that's how they were load shedding us until the matter went to Parliament and the Minister of Energy was forced to admit that Zambia had a power shortage and the commitments for power exports required that there should be load management and Zambia then went on to suffer load shedding for a period of six years.

The elections are over.

Wow.

The Zesco employees know this.

They don't.

Wow.