Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:50:54 +0000 By Bennie Mundando HE proposal by Zambia to import electricity from South Africa remains the country’s only logical option for now as some independent power producers (IPPs) are asking for higher tariffs than what South Africa offers, the Energy Forum Zambia has observed. EFZ chairperson Johnstone Chikwanda said the forum’s research showed IPPs were selling power to Zesco at a price higher than the import price from the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP), adding that independent power producers did not necessarily translate into lower tariffs. Mr. Chikwanda observed that attacks on President Edgar Lungu’s proposal to import electricity from South Africa was not supporting local investment in the energy sector. He said the attacks on President Lungu were not justified because the Head of State had pushed hard to diversify the energy sector by signing a number of memoranda of understanding (MoU) to support local investments. “A number of […]
