Government has made sensational claims that electricity supply situation will considerably improve from today on claims that Government has started to make weekly payments to service its legacy debt with regional power utilities.

The latest promises by government come at a time when Zimbabwe Power Company engineers warning of the decommissioning of Lake Kariba’s hydro power plant soon.

Secretary for Finance and Economic Development George Guvamatanga dismissed the blackout fears yesterday during a post-Budget breakfast meeting in Harare.

He said the arrangements put in place on electricity should guarantee increased power supply beginning today or tomorrow.

“In terms of the debt, I think the first instalment was made last week (and) we are going to be making weekly instalments for the legacy debts and we have also agreed that we pay on current basis for the supply of new imports,” said Mr Guvamatanga.

Government has also made arrangements with the private sector to “ring-fence adequate resources” to pay for at least 400MW of electricity per month.

“We certainly expect the power situation, having concluded with one of the suppliers, to improve starting tomorrow (today) or from Wednesday.

“We are going to be engaging other suppliers as well to try and see if we can put into place a similar structure,” said Mr Guvamatanga.

However, he said there was need to find resources that will be ring-fenced to pay for power imports.

Rolling power outages have seen most parts of the country going without electricity for over 18 hours.