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CHRIS BARRON: SA needs to ‘wage war’ against energy crisis, says NPC’s Mark Swilling
Emergency action to cut red tape and break political logjams is the only way to avoid disaster
17 July 2022 - 06:33
Mark Swilling, chair of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and commissioner of the National Planning Commission (NPC), which has called for an emergency energy plan to end load-shedding in two years, says the consequences of not doing so don't bear thinking about.
“If we haven't put at least 10,000MW of new generation onto the grid in 24 months we will have a minimum of stage 4 to stage 6 load-shedding almost on a permanent basis...
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