EDITORIAL: Still searching for signs of long-term gain at Eskom
18 September 2023 - 05:00
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s pay-off line during a two-week stretch of stage 6 load-shedding is “short-term pain for long-term gain”.
The higher stages of load-shedding, he says, are partly due to the ramp up in maintenance (from about 3,500MW to about 6,000MW) after the winter months. Ramokgopa argues that subjecting South Africans to higher stages of load-shedding now because of increased maintenance will deliver a more reliable coal-fired generation fleet and less load-shedding in the long term...
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