Ramokgopa warns that Eskom will 'collapse' unless municipalities pay their R78 billion power bills
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has given his first Energy Action Plan update since being reappointed as electricity minister and called out indebted municipalities for their failure to pay their Eskom power bills.
Ramokgopa stated this spells trouble for the power utility, “Eskom needs this money to reinvest back into its infrastructure. Ramokgopa also warned that this issue is contributing to the blackouts Tshwane and Johannesburg are implementing in some areas, even though the country just celebrated 100 days without load shedding.
“In the solution, we must protect the interests of Eskom as a going concern, ensure that municipalities can collect revenue and protect the interests of the user. Because when that distribution infrastructure fails, which is providing electricity to 50 houses, there’ll be 10 to 20 houses that have been paying diligently but become collateral damage.”The biggest victims of all of this are the end consumers, and, by definition, the South African economy.
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