Madonsela recently took to social media to share her frustration with the poor power supply after suffering an outage followed by stage 6 load-shedding.
Pressure has been mounting for Ramakgopa to provide solutions with stage 6 load-shedding implemented for two weeks and expected to worsen in the winter months.
“Has Eskom considered entering the business of wholesale buying of solar panels and inverters and retailing these to the nation, having trained a squad of unemployed young persons to do installations. Could this not help end stage 6 load-shedding or any stage with deliberate speed? “At the moment people are able to get expensive installations from reputable companies to evade stage 6 load-shedding and other stages. The unverified traders in places like Chinatowns are a grave risk. Eskom diversifying its offerings would also boost energy security equity.“Furthermore, if done by Eskom, having procured solar panels and inverters in bulk directly from manufacturers, the cost would not average R150,000 per family.
The report on his plan comes a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa promised businesses at the fifth South Africa Investment Conference that government was working on ending load-shedding in the short-term.“As we work to close the electricity supply shortfall and end load-shedding in the short term, we are laying the foundation for a fundamental reform of the energy sector in the longer term.
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