Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa visited Duvha power station on Monday. LoadShedding
“To get to a stage where people find it very strange to have electricity for a day or two days in succession underscores the gravity of the [energy crisis].”
With the country having experienced lower stages of load shedding this past weekend, Ramakgopa attributed this to the increase in energy availability factor at some power stations.“Our interventions on resolving load shedding doesn’t start with the minister of electricity. The energy action plan has been there… all that we are doing is accelerating it and of course we can see that six power stations are beginning to pick [and] the energy availability factor is going up.
“So it’s [a result] of the efforts that we have been making and hopefully we will start to seeing meaningful and real changes at all these power stations,” the minister continued. Ramokgopa is expected to visit the Kusile and Kendal power stations on Tuesday, then Tutuka and Camden the following day.He will also check in at Koeberg power station in Western Cape on Friday.
I engaged with the management at power station level as well as the unions and the workers to affirm our confidence in the hard working men and women on the ground who work tirelessly to resolve the loadshedding problem.
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