The Board DIRECTS ZESCO to maintain the current lifeline units at 100kWh at a reduced tariff, from 47ngwee to 40ngwee/ kWh. This is consistent with the Government's aspiration to make electricity accessible to all Zambians.
ZAMBIA'S ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW Zambia's energy resources include electricity (hydropower), petroleum, coal, biomass and renewable energy. It is only petroleum which is wholly imported in the country. The Energy Sector in Zambia consists of three main sub-sectors namely: Electricity, Renewable Energy and Petroleum. ELECTRICITY SUB-SECTOR
Table 1: Installed and Available Generation Capacity (MW) Zambia's electricity market is structured as a single-buyer market model with ZESCO acting as the unique off-taker and bulk retailer of electricity on the national interconnected system.
The ERB notes ZESCO's efforts in re-negotiating the tariffs with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and wish to encourage ZESCO to continue this course of action with all IPPs. In this regard, the Board notes for example that the capacity charge agreed with Ndola Energy is not prudent and must be re-negotiated forthwith.
Zengamina Power Limited, an off-grid mini hydro power plant in Ikelenge District of North-Western province of Zambia, has an installed capacity of 0.75 MW. It was commissioned in 2007 and is
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The economic cost of supply formulated through these charges (energy, demand, and customer charges) represents pure cost-reflective tariffs, optimal from an economic point of view, that for the
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Zambia has one of the lowest electricity tariffs in the SADC region, second only to Angola. This entails that the government subsidizes electricity for its citizens.
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The recent approval of emergency tariff adjustments by the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) for ZESCO Limited has sparked significant discussion among stakeholders in Zambia''s
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METERED RESIDENTIAL TARIFFS [Capacity up to 15KVA] 2. COMMERCIAL TARIFFS (Capacity up to 15KVA) 3. SOCIAL SERVICES TARIFFS (Schools, Hospitals, street lighting) 4. WATER
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kWh will get a 39% rise in tariff charges. Further, maximum demand customers across all 3 categories will get a tariff increase between 30% and 115%. ERB Chairperson James Banda highlighted the
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In line with Regulation 22 of the Electricity (Net Metering) Regulations, Statutory Instrument number 38 of 2024, the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has determined the Net Metering tariffs
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The REFiT Strategy is being implemented through the Global Energy Transfer Feed in Tariff (GET FiT) Programme with support from KfW, a German Development Bank. The programme involves the
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