Minister in Presidency Mondli Gungubele has urged the public to give Eskom’s board time as South Arica continues to experience loading shedding. Read more here👇:
Makwana previously first served as a non-executive director of Eskom between 2002 and 2011.
Meanwhile, Gungubele indicated government was confident in the current board, saying it had the necessary skills to fix Eskom. “They hope to find a way of managing until an ultimate solution [is found]. We are very comfortable, we have got a skilled board and they have got eyes to actually assess whether the capacity we have can take us anywhere and we do continue to keep this as an ongoing worrying matter.”load shedding and will remain in place until further notice since Eskom is facing an increase in unplanned breakdowns.
The power utility also does not have enough money to spend on diesel for generating emergency reserves, having already spent nearly R11.2 billion on the liquid fuel so far this year.load shedding with prolonged periods of blackouts being anticipated in the future.Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer on Tuesday revealed that the power utility will start embarking on several capital investment and major repair projects, which carry significant risks for the country’s generation capacity.
The projects are expected to pull up to 2,300MW of generating capacity from the system, and as a result the public should anticipate increased load shedding until the problems are resolved over the next six to 12 months.for the national grid on an expedited basis.
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