South Africans have weighed in on the government's battle plan to deal with the crippling energy crisis, questioning some of the interventions and saying it has confused them further.
SA has experienced rolling blackouts for weeks after unprotected strike action and other factors left the power grid in a critical position. Finally responding to mounting calls for him to address the situation, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced his government's plan to “fix Eskom and improve its existing fleet of power stations”.
Among the proposals are to increase Eskom's budget for maintenance and new green energy projects. The power utility will also construct its first solar and battery storage projects at Komati, Majuba, Lethabo and several other power stations. Eskom will also aim to recruit skilled personnel, acquire surplus energy from independent power producers and private entities, and import electricity from neighbouring countries that have surplus power. Support independent journalism by subscribing to the
It didn’t work in 2018, why would it work now?
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This only opened up business for IPPs and gave effect to Eskom’s generation division privatisation. Last week he said there’ll be a competitor to break Eskom’s monopoly. New company will compete with which company, generation, transmission or distribution? Yho esende lendlela
ANC won't fix anything anymore, they just talk with no action
🤨🧐😟😬😳 like no, duh
No
Look who makes noise about IPP's integration who were there in 2019.
Nothing will happen as long as Ramaphosa is still head of government. Same new happens 2019
Green Energy In a developing country & where are you going to get expert on that,green energy is not sustainable in developed countries so how are we going to build that infastracture & maintain it? Mr Phalaphala/CyrilRamaphosa Or you going to get another loan 🤡
No.
After all this are DAs plans
I can work if the ANC can back off from all the funds intended to be used , let the EFF and the DA run all the projects because the ANC will steal all the money until we are in total black out
What intervention
All talk no action for past 4year,!
YES YES as long as the myanc members don't touch anything, let the private sector sort out this mess created by the criminals and incompetence by the PresJGZuma lead government ANCParliament action24