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State Enterprises and Parastatals
The Committee received oral evidence from the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company, which was represented by Mr Chifamba. The major highlights of the presentation were as follows:
ZESA was not able to maintain a continuous power supply to the majority of customers due to a power shortfall. About 1300MW of power was available against a national demand of up to 2100MW. As a result customers were experiencing load shedding.
Some constraints in providing continuous power supply to customers are due to network faults caused by the aging of the electrical infrastructure, theft and vandalism of network components.
ZESA had scaled down on meter reading because it was expensive in terms of manpower and resources. Hence customers would receive estimated bills.
ZESA was experiencing challenges with the billing system in Harare and Western Regions resulting in erroneous bills.
ZESA was owed over $475 million by customers.