Eskom cites improvement in generation performance: Eskom says it has managed to minimise load shedding over the past two weeks due to lower plant breakdowns.
Eskom generation executive Eric Shunmagum said a month ago the breakdowns at the entity’s electricity generation division were between 18,500MW and 19,000MW. .
Shunmagum said another plan was to keep planned maintenance below 3,000MW, and they had been taking advantage of long weekends to do maintenance.He added that cold fronts were a double-edge sword. “[We need to] ensure that we address workers’ grievances. As the single biggest resource that we have available to any institution is the workforce. In this instance, we’ve had a workforce that hasn’t been receiving any significant amount of an incentive over a period of time and that translated in the performance [dropping],” he said, thanking the unions and Eskom leadership for concluding a 7%
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