On 1 July, electricity costs for some of South Africa’s poorest people went up by as much as 60%.
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South Africans deserve better than to be left out in the cold by the power plays of Eskom, City Power and Nersa.
Johannesburg’s troubled electricity supply utility, City Power, has launched a customer-facing AI chatbot called Joulene.
City Power has warned it will impose “load reduction” on Johannesburg residents to “protect the grid from total collapse”.
Eskom is taking South Africa’s largest city to court over its alleged failure to pay debts totalling nearly R1.1-billion.
Eskom announced last month that it would hand over responsibility for implementing load shedding to City Power.
Eskom has handed over load shedding operations for large parts of Johannesburg to City Power.
Eskom will hand over responsibility for almost all load shedding in Johannesburg to City Power from 6 November.
Joburg has secured bids from private producers to provide 92MW of electricity.
Johannesburg’s City Power is in talks with Eskom to reduce outages in South Africa’s biggest and wealthiest city.