By a Correspondent
The nation wide power outage on Tuesday morning was a result of an abrupt system disturbance on high voltage powerlines linking Kariba and Harare, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has said.
The country experienced a power outage at 10.26 AM on Tuesday and electricity was restored later in the day.
In a statement, the power utility said:
“Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution would like to apologise to its valued customers for an unplanned nationwide power outage that happened at 1026HRS.
“This was due to an abrupt system disturbance on the Alaska-Warren High voltage transmission power lines linking Kariba and Harare . This has since been resolved by our engineers.”
On September 24, ZETDC announced that there would be increased load curtailment due to technical challenges at Kariba and Hwange Power Stations as well as import constraints.
On Tuesday, the organisation encouraged consumers to use electricity sparingly as the national grid was still experiencing depressed generation.
