Here’s how implementation of the emergency plan to resolve South Africa electricity supply crisis has progressed.
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Eskom has said that repairing damage to a flue gas duct at the still-unfinished Kusile power station could take months.
The facility will now be transformed into a wind and solar energy production site, the state-owned utility said.
South Africa will need to build solar and wind plants at a blistering pace – almost nine times faster than it previously has – over the next decade.
Eskom will suspend load shedding at midnight on Friday, and will only resume the rotational power cuts again on Monday.
About 53GW of new energy generation capacity must be built in the next 10 years to ensure energy security, Eskom said.
A former CEO of Eskom appeared in court on charges related to more than R2-billion of irregular contracts to build a coal-fired plant.
Government will take over as much as two-thirds of Eskom’s R400-billion debt mountain, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said.
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana is expected to announce a plan to take on part of Eskom’s mammoth debt.
Eskom on Sunday pushed load shedding to stage 4 and warned of severe power cuts throughout the coming workweek.