Zimbabweans should brace for longer periods of darkness as the country’s power utility on Thursday warned of depressed electricity generation caused by a technical fault at one of its main plants.
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) said it would from Thursday move to a Stage 2 load-shedding schedule where households and businesses would be switched off for more than the 10-hour power cuts that they had become accustomed to during the past two months.
ZETDC said generation at its coal-fired Hwange Power Station “is depressed due to a technical fault”, forcing the utility to activate Stage 2 of its load shedding programme.
“Load shedding may be above [for longer periods than] the publicized schedules,” the utility said in a notice.
The announcement comes as sad news to Zimbabweans who have had to endure long periods of daily power cuts since April.
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