{"id":437929,"date":"2011-06-08T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/solar-geysers-initiative-hailed\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:57:39","slug":"solar-geysers-initiative-hailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/solar-geysers-initiative-hailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Geysers Initiative Hailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"36.708380521\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/timeszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>SOME Ndola and Lusaka residents have welcomed Zesco&#8217;s countrywide installation of free solar geysers.<\/p>\n<p>The residents have since urged the opposition against perceiving this as a political campaign because it will benefit all households regardless of political affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>George Zulu of Kabulonga thanked Zesco for introducing the geysers saying the intention was of great benefit to the country and the Zambian populace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8217;s fully implemented,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Rupiah Banda recently launched Zesco&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chipindi said the distribution of the geysers was a clear demonstration of President Banda&#8217;s commitment to bettering the people&#8217;s lives within the short term that he had been in office.<\/p>\n<p>He said through his hard work, President Banda had managed to come up with initiatives which had helped change people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106080146.html\" title=\"Solar Geysers Initiative Hailed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solar Geysers Initiative Hailed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 6 June 2011 SOME Ndola and Lusaka residents have welcomed Zesco&#8217;s countrywide installation of free solar geysers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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