Minister of Electricity Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is encouraged by the progress made by Eskom and anticipates the utility will be producing 32 000MW of capacity soon.
Demand is starting to come down but this, the minister says, can be attributed to warmer temperatures in the country.The minister explained that Eskom made a decision not to take units out of service for maintenance during the Winter months. The logic here is that the utility needed every spare megawatt it could produce to meet the Winter demand.
The minister says that the goal here is to conduct maintenance on a regular beat rather than waiting for something to go wrong. To that end, Ramokgopa highlighted a goal of bringing unplanned outages down to 14 000MW. At present unplanned outages average between 16 000 and 18 000MW. The minister went on to say that Eskom is nearing the 32 000MW generating capacity mark. This would mean that Eskom can meet demand, provided that demand doesn’t hit the 33 000MW it has for most of Winter.
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