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Eskom Group chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the utility would not compromise reliability and mid-life refurbishment to avoid load shedding.
The DA’s young Cape Town mayoral candidate has come up with a humdinger – Geordin Hill-Lewis is running on the promise of no more loadshedding for Cape Town.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the 55-year-old Komati power plant will shut down next year to enable conversion to generate energy from renewable sources.
Municipalities will also require a once-off R100bn injection because of NERSA’s decision to reject the latest tariff application from Eskom.
Olga Constantatos of Futuregrowth discusses David Masondo’s controversial debt-for-climate-swap proposal and what this could mean in respect of Eskom’s debt.
About 1,000MW of capacity is set to be decommissioned annually over the next decade – an opportunity to begin overhauling the energy system. But how?
Eskom is considering “8,017 megawatts of projects, ranging from wind power to solar, hydropower and gas,” reports Bloomberg.
With protesting and cold weather expected this week, Eskom has urged the public to reduce electricity usage, with load shedding a possibility.
SA failed to build new power stations when economic growth and aging plants demanded it. The result? Load shedding, a thorn in SA’s side since 2007.
Sibusiso Ntshalintshali of Ethekwini’s municipality told Bloomberg that the city will seek proposals for private power generation from any technology.