South Africa's Eskom to reduce power cuts but long-term outlook bleak
Creaking coal-fire power stations, underinvestment in new generating capacity, corruption in coal supply contracts and foot-dragging on policies that would enable private providers to plug the shortfall with renewable energy have all conspired to leave South Africa woefully short of its power needs. Eskom said from Tuesday the pattern would be "Stage 4" rotational outages from 0500 local time (0300 GMT) until 1600, followed by "Stage 5" from 1600 local time until 0500 the following morning.
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