The document summarizes Zambia's power crisis and ZESCO's responses. It defines the crisis as inadequate supply capacity, fluctuating power quality, and low access rates. ZESCO is addressing this through short-term power imports, commissioning new generation and transmission projects, and medium-to-long term projects and partnerships totaling billions. ZESCO is also working to increase access rates from below 30% currently to over 240,000 new connections by 2018, having already connected over 215,000 customers since 2013.