South Africa could see the end of rolling blackouts by end of next week according to Eskom chief executive officer, Andre de Ruyter.
on Saturday , de Ruyter said that the national power utility has seen more generation units returning to operation., we should emerge from load shedding,” said de Ruyter at a walking tour of the Tutuka power station accompanied by president Cyril Ramaphosa.
The power station is set to provide a necessary 920 MW to the national grid; however, de Ruyter added that to curb load shedding for good, additional capacity is still required as the system is currently unreliable and unpredictable.to an evening-only schedule this weekend. Frequent outages have caused the economy to underperform by 40%, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said Thursday. Its high-debt burden has also been a strain on the nation’s coffers, Bloomberg reported.
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