Minerals Council SA calls for action to ease power shortages
‘The government and Eskom should be contracting in any extra renewable energy from existing wind and solar plants’
13 January 2020 - 22:04
SA’s mining industry body on Monday urged the government to bring on stream new private sector power sources to ease the power crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of recession.
Struggling state-owned utility Eskom was forced to implement power cuts across the country in 2019 and last week even though many businesses and factories were closed for the holidays...
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