BPC probes recent system failures

Monday, March 15, 2021

BPC customers were stranded on Sunday when the power vendors system was down. PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is banking on the multi-billion remediation work at Morupule B to ease the country's electricity supply situation.

The sensitivity of national electricity supply was exposed recently, when a critical sub-station failed, plunging most parts of the country into darkness for more than an hour in some places.

Over the weekend, the Corporation suffered an ICT failure which meant customers could not buy electricity or call to report faults.

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