Eskom’s performance over the past three weeks – which has seen no load-shedding being implemented – is a result of concerted and deliberate plans by the power utility and government to deal with power outages.
Poor maintenance at power plants and corruption at the utility have been cited as the main reasons for the power outages. “There’s been significant recovery as a result of the execution of the Generation Operational Recovery Plan… as a result of, first, at the national level, the Energy Action Plan,” he said.Ramokgopa added there have been “phenomenal improvements in relation to the unplanned capacity loss factor” during the past week.With embattled Eskom struggling to maintain a steady power supply, SA has gradually been introducing renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, to plug the energy shortfall.
“It’s part of that orchestrated plan. If you go to the Energy Action Plan, outcome number four stated explicitly that part of this Energy Action Plan is to ensure we accelerate the rollout of rooftop solar solutions for households and industries. “The baseline of May , we were sitting at about 18 000MW; we are bringing it down. The average of the week from 8 to 12 April , we were sitting at about 13 900MW. The week after, again at 14 000MW. Today, we are still at about 13 000MW. We want to maintain that…even bring it sub-13 000MW, but it’s a function of a steady, orchestrated and deliberate effort on the part of Eskom,” he said.
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