Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa's minister of electricity, pledged the country's commitment to continue supplying electricity to Namibia during a media briefing held in Windhoek.
Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa’s minister of electricity, pledged the country’s commitment to continue supplying electricity to Namibia during a media briefing held in Windhoek., Namibia currently generates approximately 40% of its required energy domestically, while the remaining 60% is imported from neighbouring countries through the Southern African Power Pool. 100 megawatts of this imported energy come from South Africa.
‘We will continue to give you the 100 megawatts; I don’t think that is at risk, and we will continue to see this kind of improvement, so we are confident about our prospects in addressing this. I see no reason why you should have sleepless nights about the 100 megawatts we are giving you,’ he assured.
He stated, ‘The intensity of loadshedding is coming down. We continue to improve the reliability and efficiency of the units; we moved from a low of 48% to now being above 60%, and we continue to improve. There are projections that going into December we are going to make significant strides in the number of units, including other strides in other areas at 15%, so there is an opportunity for us to improve, and the power stage can give us an additional 1000 megawatts.
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