When Abraham Cambridge flew to South Africa in 2014, he was struck by how few solar panels he saw in a sunny country with unreliable electricity.
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Eskom’s Komati coal-fired power plant has secured R9-billion from the World Bank and other funders to generate renewable energy from the site.
The new Eskom board is expected to undertake a full assessment of the efficiency of leadership at Eskom, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
Here’s how implementation of the emergency plan to resolve South Africa electricity supply crisis has progressed.
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.