{"id":232952,"date":"2026-05-11T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-amid-electricity-crisis-zambians-favour-ending-state-monopoly-investing-in-solar-and-wind-power\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:16:53","slug":"zambia-amid-electricity-crisis-zambians-favour-ending-state-monopoly-investing-in-solar-and-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-amid-electricity-crisis-zambians-favour-ending-state-monopoly-investing-in-solar-and-wind-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Amid Electricity Crisis, Zambians Favour Ending State Monopoly, Investing in Solar and Wind Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Only one in 25 citizens enjoy reliable power from the national grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A modest majority (55%) of Zambians live in zones served by the ZESCO grid, but only half as many (28%) say their households are actually connected to the grid.<\/li>\n<li>Urban residents and highly educated citizens are significantly more likely to have a connection to the grid than rural and poorly educated respondents.<\/li>\n<li>Among those who are connected to the grid, only 15% say their electricity works &#8220;most&#8221; or &#8220;all&#8221; of the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110046.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one in 25 citizens enjoy reliable power from the national grid. Key findings A modest majority (55%) of Zambians live in zones served by the ZESCO grid, but only half as many (28%) say their households are actually connected to the grid. Urban residents and highly educated citizens are significantly more likely to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,3723,4895,24897,9522,18596,257,7047,4631,254,6017,15683,4709,881,9005],"class_list":["post-232952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-electricity","tag-favour","tag-investing","tag-monopoly","tag-news","tag-power","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-wind","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/232952","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=232952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}