Solar Geysers Initiative Hailed

6 June 2011

SOME Ndola and Lusaka residents have welcomed Zesco’s countrywide installation of free solar geysers.

The residents have since urged the opposition against perceiving this as a political campaign because it will benefit all households regardless of political affiliation.

In Lusaka Paul Kabinga hailed the project saying it would go a long way in reducing on the expenditure of electricity.Mr Kabinga said that for a long time now, people had been consuming a lot of electricity by boiling water using electricity.

“This is a good initiative because we will cut electricity and save for sale to other industries like the mines that consume a lot of power,” he said.

George Zulu of Kabulonga thanked Zesco for introducing the geysers saying the intention was of great benefit to the country and the Zambian populace.

“If we want to save electricity it is vital that Zesco takes this initiative, we have abundant sunshine and yet we do not utilise it, so it is a good thing and we must support it fully until it’s fully implemented,” he said.

President Rupiah Banda recently launched Zesco’s electricity power supply initiatives for residential customers throughout the country aimed at providing reliable supply and cutting bills by close to 40 per cent.

In Ndola, Steven Chipindi said the decision to introduce the free geysers would be helpful to the majority of the people who spent a lot of money on charcoal, firewood and electricity charges.

Mr Chipindi said the distribution of the geysers was a clear demonstration of President Banda’s commitment to bettering the people’s lives within the short term that he had been in office.

He said through his hard work, President Banda had managed to come up with initiatives which had helped change people’s lives.

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