Work that Eskom has done to alleviate the country’s energy crisis will help ensure the situation won’t be as dire as it might have been, says Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer.
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.
Before that, the utility will continue to cut 2,000 megawatts from 16h00 until midnight on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement on Twitter. It will publish a further update on the afternoon of 14 October 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 realise 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.
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