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Government Announces Measures To End Power Crisis: Duty On Solar Equipment...
The government is putting in place a number of measures in order to resolve the current power crisis. The following measures were announced by Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa during the 25th...
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ZESA Now Accessing 300MW From Southern Africa Power Pool’s Day-Ahead Market
ZESA’s efforts to ease the power crisis are finally producing results even if the impact right now is minimal. Yesterday, Minister of Information Monica Mutsvangwa claimed that ZETDC has finally...
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ZESA: Loadshedding Back To Stage 1 But Kariba Producing Less Than 300MW
ZESA is finally receiving 400MW from Eskom and their spokesperson has come out and said that this means that Loadshedding can now return to the more palatable Stage 1 with 5-hour powercuts down from...
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The More ZESA You Use, The More You Pay- Here’s How It Works
ZESA has announced a new billing system for domestic consumers of electricity. Instead of paying a flat rate, they want to cushion households that use less power somewhat. Fullard Gwasira, the ZESA PR...
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Zim Negotiating With Mozambique For 150-400MW Of Power
As long as we don’t have power, the scope for economic growth is extremely slim. Energy Minister Fortune Chasi has been trying to tame our power crisis over the past few months to varying degrees of...
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Watch: ZESA Explains How New Tarrif Model Works
ZESA introduced a new tarrif model some weeks ago which penalizes heavy electricity users. We once wrote about how the tarrif model works but if you didn’t understand it you can watch the following...
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ZESA Applies For Electricity Tariff Review
Over the past few months, Zimbabwe has been in a crippling power crisis and one of the major reasons for this was that our electricity producers were selling power for peanuts. Well, not literally but...
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ZESA New Tariffs: Over 200% Increment In How Much You’ll Pay
ZESA promised a tariff increment and today they’ve delivered on that promise. The new tariffs that domestic customers pay for power have been significantly increased; There’ll be a fixed monthly...
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ZESA Adds New Features To Online Portal
ZESA’s online portal introduced last year only allowed you to check a history of your token purchases. The electricity supply authority has now added a number of new features to that portal. Check out...
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ZESA Meter Can Charge You For Your Generator’s Power If You Connect Wrong
So one of our readers made a complaint to ZESA that their pre-paid meter was billing them for power they were consuming from their generator during load shedding hours. We got curious and how that...
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Update: ZESA Increases Minimum Amount Of Tokens You Can Buy On EcoCash &...
The minimum amount of ZESA tokens you can buy through EcoCash has been increased from $10 to $20. EcoCash posted the message on their social media accounts: Dear valued customerPlease note that ZETDC...
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ZESA Says They’re Going To Disconnect Post-Paid Customers Defaulting On Bills
ZESA has spent a number of months encouraging customers to pay their bills – remember that time when it seemed like the Energy Minister’s vocabulary only consisted of the words “pay your bills”? Well,...
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ZESA Prepaid System Down Countrywide
ZESA spokesman Fullard Gwasira took to his Twitter account last night to announce that the prepaid vending system is currently down. Zetdc would like to advise its valued customers countrywide that it...
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It’s Taken 9 Days For ZESA To Increase The Minimum Token Purchase Again
On the 19th of October ZESA announced that the minimum token purchasable through EcoCash, OneMoney and other platforms was being raised from $10 to $20. 9 days later, on the 28th they announced that...
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ZESA – Social Media Claims That Electricity Is Cheaper On The 1st Day Of The...
It seems there’s a lot of confusion regarding ZESA’s new tariff system and with that confusion, people are failing to understand how the tariffs actually work. With electricity units being sold at...
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How To Sign Up For ZESA’S Online Portal
ZESA has a pretty comprehensive Self-Service portal but the only problem is the fact that ZESA hasn’t educated consumers on how to use the thing! After signing up for the portal I realised it’s really...
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ZESA Denounces Fake Twitter Accounts Which “Mislead”&“Defraud” Consumers
ZESA has released a statement in response to an infamous Twitter account which has been getting attention for clapping back at customers who can’t tell the difference between official and parodies of...
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ZESA Says We’re Not Stealing Electricity Units During Loadshedding
ZESA has come out and dispelled rumours that customers are being charged for electricity usage during load shedding periods when they have no access to electricity to begin with. ZETDC took to their...
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RBZ Instructs Exporters To Pay For Electricity In Forex
A recent statutory instrument issued out by the RBZ will ensure the never-ending currency confusion in Zimbabwe… never ends. The statutory instrument orders exporters to pay the Zimbabwe Electricity...
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Former Eskom CEO Supposed To Invest In 100MW Local Solar Plant Says...
You may remember Engineer Koko Matshela -Former CEO of Eskom- whose company was awarded the licence to set up a US$250 million solar power plant that was supposed to generate 100MW back in July with...
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