Zimbabwe’s state power utility, ZESA, said on Tuesday it had restored power to most of the country. This comes after a fault on a key transmission line caused a nationwide blackout on Monday evening.
• The outage began at 1824 local time (1624 GMT) after a major fault on the Warren-Alaska 330-kV line disrupted interconnections with neighbouring power utilities and subsequently caused local generation to trip due to voltage instability and underfrequency.
• Power was restored with supplies from South Africa’s Eskom, Kariba Power Station, Hydro Cahora Bassa and three units at Hwange Power Station. Electricity returned to most of the country by 2200 local time, ZESA said.
• The utility said its technical teams were continuing work to restore and synchronise the remaining units at Hwange Power Station and to carry out repairs at the Warren substation, which supplies parts of the capital, Harare.
• Zimbabwe has long grappled with power outages. This has been worsened by ageing infrastructure and foreign currency shortages that have limited the country’s ability to pay for electricity imports.
Work continued on Tuesday to bring remaining generation units back online
- A fault on the Warren-Alaska 330-kV transmission line caused a nationwide blackout in Zimbabwe on Monday evening.
- The outage began at 18:24 local time, disrupting interconnections and causing local generation trips due to voltage and frequency issues.
- Power was mostly restored by 22:00 local time using supplies from South Africa's Eskom, Kariba Power Station, Hydro Cahora Bassa, and Hwange Power Station.
- ZESA technical teams are working to repair the Warren substation and synchronize remaining Hwange Power Station units to fully restore power.
- Zimbabwe's power challenges are exacerbated by aging infrastructure and foreign currency shortages affecting electricity imports.
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Work continued on Tuesday to bring remaining generation units back online
