The power utility says there is a shortage of generation capacity with more than 16,000MW unavailable because of equipment failure at its plants. Rolling blackouts, it says, are only implemented as a ‘last resort’.
hen a technology has reached the end of its life, it doesn’t make sense to continue to perpetuate it; the Stone Age didn’t end because of a lack of stones!” Eskom group CEO André de Ruyter said during a panel discussion on South Africa’s energy crisis at The Gathering,“I don’t think that the fact that we have coal means that we should continue to burn coal… That’s a fallacy.
“You don’t destroy what you have on the basis of hope that something better is coming. You build for the future on what you know and what you have… So that approach to me is scientific, is systematic. It protects the present ability of the state to supply energy,” Mantashe was reported as saying at the time.Eskom’s open-cycle gas turbines, which need diesel to run, are used during peak periods and in emergencies to supply enough electricity to the national grid.
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