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There is a lot in this interview to absorb and chew over, not least Kemm’s view that it makes sense to dust off SA’s scrapped PBMR programme.
The debates have left the wider public confused. South Africa’s electricity supply has become increasingly unreliable and expensive.
Labour union Solidarity has sent a list of roughly 300 skilled and experienced power experts to help Eskom fix its operational problems.
The Ramaphosa energy plan was met with rapturous acclaim from most of the mainstream media and the DA’s shadow minister of energy. Dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Eskom applied to Nersa for a 32.66% electricity tariff increase from 1 April 2023 and will now have to adjust its application after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s power plan announcement.
Plans to deregulate the fuel price by imposing a price cap on 93 octane petrol could have major unintended consequences.
Connie Mulder says the crux of the president’s plan is to decentralise power generation – a policy shift that couldn’t come soon enough.
OUTA believes President Ramaphosa’s reforms to address the power crisis prove Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe should get the boot for failing in his job.
For as little as R595, South Africans can get a small UPS to provide backup power to their wireless Internet connection during load-shedding.
Minister Gwede Mantashe’s Eskom 2.0 idea is deemed “preposterous” by the DA’s shadow minister of public enterprises, Ghaleb Cachalia.