The defence force won’t be much use in preventing crime at the utility, they say
The new smart meters give the power utility the ability to limit the electricity supply to a household
The power utility plans to burn more diesel to reduce load-shedding levels, but the treasury won’t finance it
The former chief operating officer will advise the board and ministers and focus on projects intended to deal with load-shedding
Eskom will be freed from borrowing more money for its operational needs and capital requirements for the next five years because of the government’s debt relief package and the tariffs approved by the national energy regulator, Nersa.
The new chief executive is charged with ending load-shedding and unbundling the power utility into three divisions – generation, transmission and distribution
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has warned of stage 8 load-shedding for up to 152 consecutive days
The public enterprises minister said climate change had to be addressed but the shift to clean energy had to consider South Africa’s economic reality
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has argued that renewable energy will not have enough baseload to power the country and avoid a total blackout
Eskom will be forced to implement higher stages of load-shedding, Ramokgopa says