Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has justified the spending of over R9 billion on diesel fuel to ensure uninterrupted power supply during instances of loadshedding, asserting that this expenditure remained within the allocated budget.
, Ramokgopa emphasised that the strategy to mitigate loadshedding during the winter months would focus on enhancing energy availability. Collaboration with both industrial stakeholders and consumers is planned to curtail electricity demand.‘We remain within budget. We are R600 million less than what we planned to spend,’ Ramokgopa affirmed during his media briefing.
‘The idea is really for us to improve on the energy availability factor because that will automatically reduce diesel burnt,’ he said. ‘That is obviously high. As you recall, May was a significantly difficult month for us as many units tripped and failed, and the burn rate was quite high,’ Dicks remarked.
Escape the loadshedding blues with a pizza or pasta and a glass of wine at Obz Cafe for R159 . Get itWhen questioned about a missive composed by Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to Eskom regarding the sanctioned sale of the distribution business, Dicks expounded on the Cabinet’s endorsement of the Eskom unbundling initiative as a protracted undertaking.
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