Unplanned outages at Eskom’s generating fleet fell to less than 16GW in the past two months, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
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Eskom has handed load shedding operations back to the City of Ekurhuleni after the metro said it would abide by the rules.
South Africa’s wine industry has been badly hit, with load shedding impacting all stages of production.
Eskom has assumed full responsibility for implementing load shedding in the City of Ekurhuleni.
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has attacked South Africa’s $8.5-billion climate finance pact with rich countries.
Eskom increased the level of load shedding further on Monday because of poorly performing power stations.
South Africa will prioritise the expansion of its electricity grid, said electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.
A power-project developer is seeking to block new rules governing the connection of plants to the grid, saying they are flawed.
Once again, the weather has beaten Eskom, with the state-owned utility set to ramp up load shedding for the weekend.
Eskom has announced that due to the breakdown of eight generating units, load shedding is being ramped up again.