Former Eskom COO, Jan Oberholzer, will stay at the utility to help in the battle against load shedding.
Retired Eskom Chief Operations Officer Jan Oberholzer will stay on at Eskom to oversee a series of new projects aimed at lessening load shedding., Oberholzer, who retired on 30 April 2023, will continue at the embattled power utility but not as COO, where he oversaw all of Eskom’s operations, including generation., which could worsen over the next few winter months.
However, he noted that work was on schedule to fix the problems at the embattled coal-fired power plants of Medupi and Kusile and to extend the license at Koeberg, South Africa’s only nuclear power station, by another 20 years. Although Public Minister Pravin Gordhan and Eskom board chairman Mpho Makwana had an EAF target of 60% for the 2022/23 trending year, the EAF achieved for the financial year was 56.56%.Oberholzer said that Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s plan to extend the life of Eskom coal-fired power plants could work, but it has to make economic sense to be done.
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