Morupule B is down again, so why isn't BPC panicking?

Hardly any consumers felt the impact and in fact, most carried on about their business without any idea that the Palapye station was down.

A few years ago, such a situation would have caused a national crisis, with the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) sharing the little electricity available by cutting off and switching on alternating areas. Loadshedding, the official name for the alternating “cutting off and switching on” reared its head in Botswana in 2008 on power generation and import shortfalls and has frequently returned to vex households and businesses.