Monica Chisela (Zesco Limited's PR Manager) provides some figures to ease our understanding of Zambia's energy problems: "The installed capacity of the Zambian electricity grid is 1,600 Mega Watts, of which 450 Mega Watts has been taken out for rehabilitation and up rating. Two machines...

Zambia does not currently have a broader and coherent energy policy, beyond the call for ZESCO to cut costs, asking the mines to pay higher costs for energy and the pursuit of a stalled rural electrification plan. Part of the problem is the IMF and World BankAn-Interview-With-Alan-Patricof preoccupation...

Zambia and foreign owners of its copper mines agreed a 35 percent power tariff increase effective January this year, and authorities have warned of possible power cuts to the mines due to a power generator fault. "All the mines have accepted the proposal to raise tariffs by 35 percent and we are...