Ramokgopa predicts reduced rolling blackouts due to increased maintenance - SABC News

Minister of Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, announces plans to reduce rolling blackouts by increasing maintenance in power stations nationwide. LoadShedding PowerMaintenance

Ramokgopa was giving an update on the government’s implementation of the Energy Action Plan, in Pretoria, on Sunday.Stage 3 will last until 5am on Monday morning, when stage 1 is expected to return.“We are running on a one unit, so we will address the Kusile problem. We will be firing unit 5, I think by the end of October, one of the first of the 3 units will come on stream by the first of December or the last week of November.

“The last of the three units that have been taken out, will come on stream. Projection, we are still on that line, will come on stream by the 24th of December,” explains Ramokgopa.

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