Load-shedding returns after seven years

On Thursday, the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) spent the better part of the morning publishing extensive lists of outages which it said were related to forced outages at “power generation plants” and the shortage of electricity in the region as a whole.

BPC spokesperson, Dineo Seleke told Mmegi that the national demand for electricity was 575 megawatts (MW) versus total supply of 440MW, a figure made up of internal generation, local emergency diesel generators and power imports.