High risk of further loadshedding as Eskom repairs faulty facilities
By Paul Burkhardt
(Bloomberg) – Eskom Holdings, which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, said it’s undertaking long-overdue repairs at its facilities amid a high risk of nationwide outages, and it expects supply to improve later this year.
The debt-stricken state utility has implemented electricity rationing – known locally as load-shedding – on 19 days so far this year after record blackouts in 2020. That followed years of underinvestment in new capacity and a failure to maintain its plants, a number of which are past or approaching their retirement date – problems Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter has been trying to rectify.
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It expects supply to improve later this year.
By Paul Burkhardt, Bloomberg
15 Mar 2021 15:32
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Eskom, which supplies almost all of South Africaâs power, said itâs undertaking long-overdue repairs at its facilities amid a high risk of nationwide outages, and it expects supply to improve later this year.
The debt-stricken state utility has implemented electricity rationing known locally as load-shedding on 19 days so far this year after record blackouts in 2020. That followed years of underinvestment in new capacity and a failure to maintain its plants, a number of which are past or approaching their retirement date problems Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter has been trying to rectify.
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Ramaphosa heralds end to private power generation hiatus
Ramaphosa also said that previously announced plans to make it easier for companies to produce their own power will be finalised within three months.
By Paul Burkhardt and Mike Cohen, Bloomberg
12 Feb 2021 10:16
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After years of prevaricating, South Africaâs government is finally edging ahead with plans to buy more power from private producers, reduce the nationâs reliance on the behemoth state utility Eskom and ease crippling energy shortages.
âGovernment will soon be initiating the procurement of an additional 11 800 megawatts of power from renewable energy, natural gas, battery storage and coal,â President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state-of-the-nation address to parliament in Cape Town on Thursday. That follows the publication in 2019 of the Integrated Resource Plan a blueprint for the stateâs energy mix to be implemented as Es