{"id":183920,"date":"2024-11-04T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-drought-hit-zambia-boosts-power-imports-to-combat-blackouts\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:27:25","slug":"southern-africa-drought-hit-zambia-boosts-power-imports-to-combat-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/southern-africa-drought-hit-zambia-boosts-power-imports-to-combat-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Drought-Hit Zambia Boosts Power Imports to Combat Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Zambia increases electricity imports due to El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought impacting hydropower production<\/li>\n<li> Zesco Ltd. imports electricity from South Africa, Mozambique, and the Southern African Power Pool to combat blackouts<\/li>\n<li> Emergency tariff hikes approved by Zambia&#8217;s energy regulator to cover rising import costs, with Zesco aiming for a five-hour daily power supply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Zambia has significantly increased electricity imports from neighboring nations to mitigate the impact of extended power outages&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Zambia increases electricity imports due to El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought impacting hydropower production Zesco Ltd. imports electricity from South Africa, Mozambique, and the Southern African Power Pool to combat blackouts Emergency tariff hikes approved by Zambia&#8217;s energy regulator to cover rising import costs, with Zesco aiming for a five-hour daily power supply Zambia has significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,24754,9156,12857,10757,10673,682,257,7047,254,7153,4709],"class_list":["post-183920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blackouts","tag-boosts","tag-combat","tag-droughthit","tag-imports","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-zambia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}