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Zimbabwe is set to have more intense load shedding as the Zimbabwe Power Company announced that the country has exhausted its water allocation for this year.
According to the power utility Kariba Power Station consumed 20.4Bm3 instead of the targeted 17.4Bm3.
“The hydro power station output for the quarter under review was 2.53% higher than the output in the same period last year. This was due to an increase in water allocation by Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) from 15 billion cubic meters in 2021 to 22.5 billion cubic meters in 2022. Kariba Power Station consumed 20.4Bm3 for power generation as of the end of Q3 2022, compared to a target of 17.4Bm3, leaving the station with 2.1Bm3 of generation capacity for the remainder of the year,” the statement read.
With the current power cuts being implemented across the country this means that load shedding will intensify and the downsize of the situation is that there is no solution yet to this problem.
The Zimbabwe Power Company has therefore been adviced to suspend generation activities in Kariba until January 2023.
“Guided by the Water Purchase Agreement and the provisions of the ZRA Acts and as the agreed Reservoir Operational Framework under the Joint Technical Committee (JTC), where the Authority and the two Kariba Power Generation Utilities are obligated and have agreed to sustainably operate the reservoir, the Zambezi River Authority is left with no choice but to firmly guide that ZPC/KHPC immediately ensures that generation activities at the South Bank Power Station are wholly suspended henceforth, until January 2023 when a further review of the substantive Hydrological Outlook at Kariba will be undertaken which will include consideration of the total reservoir live storage build-up which would have resulted from a shutdown of the Kariba South Bank Power Station power generation operations.
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