SA faces another 18 months of regular powercuts and won’t be able to end them until sufficient generating capacity is added to the electricity grid to meet demand, Eskom Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer said Moneyweb Loadshedding Read more here:
South Africa faces another 18 months of regular power cuts and won’t be able to end them until sufficient generating capacity is added to the electricity grid to meet demand, Eskom Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer said. “We need another year or year-and-a-half to get out of this,” Oberholzer said at the Agri SA conference near Johannesburg on Thursday. “We are going to go through a tough time over the next year and a half.
Eskom will halve the amount of power it removes from the national grid to 1 000 megawatts from 16:00 on October 14. Before that, the utility will continue to cut 2 000 megawatts from 16:00 until midnight on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement on Twitter. “To the extent possible, Eskom will endeavor to limit loadshedding to night-time to have minimal impact on the economy and population,” it said, using a local term for rolling blackouts.
Eskom will sign the first contracts to lease land to five independent power producers on Friday so that they can develop renewable energy projects, the utility said. The company in June announced it had selected 18 companies to lease sites at its power plants. The bids for about 4,000 hectares are ultimately for projects expected to realize 1,800 megawatts of renewable energy capacity.
Citizens are angry over the nation’s record power cuts and politicians are seeking to deflect blame for a crisis that’s been a quarter century in the making. Stung by criticism, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raced home from Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in the UK, canceling plans to travel on to United Nations’ meetings. An announcement followed that the board of state power utility Eskom had been replaced and an ambitious efficiency target for its predominantly coal-fired plants was set.
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