{"id":42680,"date":"2021-06-29T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=42680"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:21:51","slug":"zim-faces-prolonged-electricity-cuts-after-power-stations-collapse-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-faces-prolonged-electricity-cuts-after-power-stations-collapse-minister","title":{"rendered":"Zim Faces Prolonged Electricity Cuts After Power Stations Collapse: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>Bloomberg<\/b> &#8211; ZIMBABWE faces prolonged power outages after a surge in electricity imports from neighbouring South Africa overloaded its network and caused generating plants to fail, Energy Minister Soda Zhemu said.<\/p>\n<p>The surge caused a nationwide blackout in the early hours of Monday, as it affected output at the Kariba hydropower plant and the coal-fired Hwange facility, Zhemu said by phone Monday from the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Generation has since been restored at Kariba and it\u2019s the only one of the nation\u2019s five plants that is working, while engineers are trying to restore output at the Hwange units, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemand is outweighing internal power-generation capacity,\u201d Zhemu said.<\/p>\n<p>Kariba produces 1,014 megawatts of electricity, compared with national consumption of about 2,000 megawatts, according to the Zimbabwe Power Company\u2019s website. Zimbabwe doesn\u2019t produce enough of its own power and relies on imports from neighbouring South Africa and Mozambique to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of the city centre in Harare on Monday, businesses were using diesel generators to run their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom didn\u2019t immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Bloomberg &#8211; ZIMBABWE faces prolonged power outages after a surge in electricity imports from neighbouring South Africa overloaded its network and caused generating plants to fail, Energy Minister Soda Zhemu said. 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