BPC power blackouts return

Motlakase house.PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG
Motlakase house.PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG

Load shedding has returned after a seven year absence as most parts of the country have been suffering from power cuts since last evening.

Following the blackouts, the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) announced that it is currently experiencing power supply constraints estimated to last for a week. The Corporation also said the outages are a result of forced power cuts at BPC power generation plants resulting in demand exceeding supply. “The situation is exacerbated by shortage of electricity generation capacity in the Southern African region as a whole.

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