Mallinson said Covid-19 restrictions had reduced demand for electricity for much of last year. He said if there had not been a pandemic, the country would have found itself grappling with many more power outages.
The economy is affected. It means we will see no growth in the economy and there are no jobs. There is no leadership whatsoever.Mallinson said Eskom’s coal-fired fleet of ageing power stations was in decline. Energy expert Chris Yelland said the power utility had warned the public there would be load-shedding into the future.
Yelland said in the short term, more maintenance of the generation fleet meant less available generation. “In the next few years, we must come to terms with the fact we will have outages.”
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