Without enough generating capacity, load shedding will remain for the foreseeable future 🥲 Read about the grim forecast below 👇
“I’m very reluctant to give a time because then people will hold me to it. But if you ask me, my gut feel. I would say another year, a year and a half to get out of this.”
But Oberholzer couldn’t guarantee that South Africa would not see higher stages of rolling blackouts.Earlier this month,warned in one of his weekly newsletters that rolling blackouts were here to stay, adding that while there is no quick fix for the deliberate power cuts, “real progress is being made”.
“Given the unpredictable performance of Eskom’s fleet of coal-fired power stations, we will not be able to eliminate load shedding in the short term. This is the unfortunate reality of our situation, which has had a long history,”Data from South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research showed that Eskom had cut 2 276GWh of electricity in the first six months of 2022, more than 90% of the 2 521GWh it shed for the entire 2021.
It also showed that South Africa had suffered 125 days of rolling blackouts and counting this year alone.
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