2500MW of generation will come online in next 5 months: Ramokgopa - SABC News

Ramokgopa has outlined what he calls a positive trend in minimizing the intensity of load shedding.

South Africa’s energy grid is gradually stabilizing, with at least 2500MW of generation capacity expected in the coming five months.

“National Treasury relaxed some of the requirements, so this results in the speed of procurement, so we are reducing slowly this thing of outage slips. I’ve made a point on the allocation of outage budgeting has improved so when I say outage budgeting, I am talking about planned maintenance.

Eskom has had to clarify the new Nersa guidelines for implementing load shedding up to stage 16. The power utility says this forms part of planning efforts and does not point to the ramping up of load shedding beyond stage 6.

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