Eskom faces increasing outages and reduced reliability due to financial constraints, warns energy expert Ruse Moleshe.
According to Moleshe, the biggest challenge in SA from the supply side was that the big generation units were off.“Then we have Koeberg under long-term addition of life type of maintenance which is supposed to come back onstream, but when it does unit two will be off,” she said.“The number of units that are off that are contributing to an already constrained system, when we have these unpredictable outages.
“And we are now using diesel, which you are supposed to use as standby capacity, almost as a normal source of generation.” Eskom announced yesterday that it would ease load shedding to between Stage 2 and Stage 4 over the weekend.
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