Government pursuing every megawatt of generation it can find, says Ramakgopa
It was “inevitable” that South Africa would have to use powerships to help deal with the country’s power supply crisis, Electricity Minister (in the Presidency) Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told delegates in his closing keynote address at the Enlit Africa conference in Cape Town in Thursday afternoon. Loadshedding – scheduled rotating power cuts imposed by State-owned national electricity utility Eskom – was, he said, “the single most important challenge facing us”. Powerships are basically power stations mounted on the hulls of ships, which can be sailed aro...
Source: engineeringnews.co.za
