SA could be in the dark during festive season

Kashiefa Ajam

From Page 1 Energy experts also expect load shedding to continue well into the new year. “At the rate at which maintenance is not occurring at Eskom, we can expect load shedding indefinitely,” said Mashele. “The only thing that can stop load shedding now is new capacity brought online as quickly as possible. “This is exactly why the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy sought to procure emergency generation capacity through the Risk Mitigation IPP programme. This programme has so far missed two deadlines for financial close. Load shedding will be a problem until we can get excess capacity online,” Mashele said. “That is why I am in support of the 100MW embedded generation programme. This will ease the load on Eskom and reduce their use of diesel significantly.…

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Saturday Star (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-11-06

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