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Thanks to ZESA I am going to spend another Christmas in the dark
At exactly 3:00 AM this morning my house lost power. I was already lying awake pondering the many problems that come with being Zimbabwean. I jumped out of the bed and looked through the window. With...
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ZESA prepaid token purchases will be down on New Year’s Eve
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has released a statement that says that the prepaid electricity vending system will be down on New Year’s Eve till the evening of the 1st of January...
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You can now report ZESA faults on WhatsApp in Harare
National power supplier ZESA has announced that residents in Harare can now report faults on WhatsApp. This development follows the torrent of faults that have been happening in the region and...
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ZESA’s self-service portal is down
It looks like ZESA‘s self-service portal and the ZETDC home page are both down. It’s unclear when the outage started but the consequence of this is that buying ZESA tokens is going to be difficult....
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ZESA token purchases will not be working Thursday evening
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has announced in a circular that the ZESA token purchase platform is going to be down this Thursday: Customer NoticeInterruption...
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Brace yourselves for load shedding says ZESA
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has, in a circular to customers, announced that the nation should brace itself for load shedding due to technical faults at Hwange as well as depressed...
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ZESA to compensate for damages caused by power surges
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) will now compensate customers who suffer damages from power surges. The news comes by way of Minister for Energy Zhemu Soda, who in an interview with...
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Two big problems with ZESA’s net metering program
Last year, then Minister for Energy Fortune Chasi announced in a tweet that ZESA was undertaking a solar net metering program. The system would allow those who wanted to participate a way of...
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The rainy season is upon us: here are the precautions ZESA wants you to take
It’s the time of year again when the skies open up and I am sure we are all thankful because the heat was getting unbearable. However, as we all know the prevailing weather doesn’t mix well with...
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Here are the speakers for Zim’s first drone conference
Zimbabwe Drone Conference announces a power-packed list of local and international speakers who will be presenting at the in-person conference this November. Speakers include Dr Patrick Meier –...
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ZPC Q3 power column: Kariba accounting for 64% of the nation’s electricity
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has released the Q3 2021 power column which denotes in some detail electricity generation in the country’s major plants. The ZPC Q3 2021 report reads as follows: ZPC...
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ZESA has a technical fault Hwange but they aren’t the only power utility...
The Zimbabwe Electricity Power Supply Authority (ZESA) has announced that there is yet another fault at the Hwange Power Station that will be causing load shedding in the country. ZESA statement reads...
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ZESA gets a US$110 mil loan to improve tariff collection
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of ZESA Holdings, was the beneficiary of a US$110.4 million loan from Afreximbank. The loan which was the largest...
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ZESA’s token purchase platform is going to be down tomorrow till the new year
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has, in a press release, said that prepaid token purchases are going to be down from the 31st of December 2021 to January 1st 2022. ZESA’s statement...
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Electricity is now pegged at 10.6 US cents per unit
ZETDC has announced a new electricity tariff adjustment where a unit of electricity of 1KWhr will now be pegged at 10.63 US cents with effect from today Sunday 15 May 2022. This will be what the...
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TECHNIKARI: ZESA’s strength is TRANSMISSION infrastructure, not power...
On this episode of Technikari, I was joined by Norman Moyo the CEO of the Econet Group subsidiary that Strive Masiyiwa said would be bigger than Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Econet Wireless –...
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New houses now required to have solar geysers: Our electricity problems are...
In another case of the government treating symptoms instead of the disease, all new housing units are now required to install solar geysers according to a report by the Sunday News. This new push is...
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New Zesa tariffs with effect 26 Sept 2022. 45% hike!
Zesa has updated its tariffs for September 2022 taking effect on the 26th of the same month. The tariffs include the 6% REA levy. It looks like the tariffs are up by 45% across the board so expect an...
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Windy weather the cause of increased power cuts says ZETDC
You heard that right. The erratic power cuts have a fresh new cause now and this time it is strong winds. ZETDC put out a statement telling its valued customers that the current crop of strong winds...
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ZETDC’s 350 000 household connection deficit. What if…?
Imagine this. Right now there are 350 000 households in Zimbabwe that have not yet been connected to the grid. Me included. I read this headline and I thought, wait a minute. What if ZESA as an...
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ZETDC installs its first smart meter at Harare Poly. But what is a smart...
ZETDC has started setting up smart meters and Harare Polytechnic College was their first site to use it. We got to check out its highlight features like network connectivity and remote monitoring and...
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ZETDC is bringing a 24-hour National Contact Center
The season we are in is notorious for weather-induced power cuts either from falling trees, broken tree branches, or lightning strikes. Let’s not forget those stealing transformer oil. The volume of...
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New Hwange Unit 7 set to add 300MW to the national grid, time to embrace coal?
Humans are built to adapt and we are really good at it. I think the Zimbabwean is particularly excellent at this. There is no point in mourning over what won’t change no matter how much you murmur and...
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These are Zesa’s new electricity charges, effective 1 March 2023
You live in a hyperinflationary economy, so you should be used to this. Electricity tariffs have gone up and this is how much it’s going to cost you to keep the lights on. Of course, we are talking...
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ZETDC prepaid token system will be down for maintenance from 5 to 7 May
ZETDC will be running scheduled maintenance on the token system from the 5th to the 7th of May. As a result, you will be unable to purchase tokens during this period. It is advised that you purchase...
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Hwange Unit 8 to contribute 300MW to the grid before June is up, Unit 7...
The electricity situation in Zimbabwe keeps evolving. One day it looks like the worst might be behind us then the next, it’s firewood and candles for everyone. In my neighbourhood at least, things...
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Cybercriminals hack ZESA and have control of critical systems and terabytes...
Could there be more to the broken ZPC website than we initially thought? Could the actual situation be much worse than a 404 error on a website? It’s possible. Let’s talk about it. There is a gang of...
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Low power generation may not be our biggest problem – transmission...
Ever been in a position where you had very low expectations and still ended up disappointed? ZESA, ZETDC and ZPC just did that to me, for the umpteenth time. In August and September, it appeared the...
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This is why your ZETDC prepaid electricity meters need upgrading
ZETDC announced that it will be upgrading all electricity meters. Now they cannot do it from their end because frankly, it would be a long and tedious task. Instead, you and I will be carrying out the...
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ZETDC meter upgrades. We have more answers to your questions
We are still in the middle of the ZETDC meter upgrade and kudos to them for providing a decent amount of information on the upgrade process. That said, a number of us are still not crystal clear on...
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