Eskom’s woes force Zimbabwe to escalate power cuts
Daily outages go beyond 18 hours a day
10 December 2019 - 20:29
Zimbabwe’s state-owned Zesa Holdings has escalated electricity cuts to as long as 24 hours after losing power imports from Eskom while its local generation capacity remains critically constrained.
The power utility has a non-binding agreement to import as much as 400MW of power from Eskom Holdings, which is unable to meet local demand and has implemented rolling blackouts now in their sixth day...
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