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Eskom’s managing director of transmissions, Segomoco Scheppers, said there is no truth to the assertion that Eskom’s international clients are prioritised over local ones.

The utility’s managing director of transmissions, Segomoco Scheppers, said this debt made it difficult for entitys ability to be self-sustainable.

Eskom plans to spend R170 billion in maintenance over the next five years in a bid to restore the performance of its fleet from 59% availability to 66% over the next three years – still far below the 75% demanded by government.


Eskom plans to spend at least R170bn in a bid to maintain and restore the coal fleet. Will this solve the energy crisis or are we simply throwing good money after bad?

SA will need to build solar and wind plants at a blistering pace to replace unreliable coal-fired power stations set for retirement.

SA has only realised 6 100 megawatts since it started a government program in 2011 to buy green energy from independent producers.

Energy expert voices concern over DMRE’s misalignment.

Eskom will suspend rolling blackouts at midnight on Friday due to lower weekend demand after 19 straight days of outages.

Eskom has announced that Stage 3 rolling blackouts will continue until Thursday, 29 September.

The government has signed agreements for three projects and 420MW of wind power in the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme — but this is out of more than 2,500MW and 25 projects that were meant to be already on the grid this year. With a desperate need for more e...