Electricity Minister, Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom hopes to minimise the impact of rolling blackouts ahead of a planned maintenance and the loss of two generation units which has constrained the system, resulting in stage six load shedding from on Tuesday morning.
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa briefs the media.
Electricity Minister, Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom hopes to minimise the impact of rolling blackouts ahead of a planned maintenance and the loss of two generation units which has constrained the system, resulting inHe says due to a lack of enough resources to implement maintenance, more capacity has been lost.
“Us as a team, we have taken a view that part of the reason we are as a country in relation to the deterioration of the generating capacity, is that they have not been sticking to planned maintenance. We have not been sticking to philosophy maintenance and that has to do with the fact that Eskom’s balance sheet was severely compromised.
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