The country's electricity minister assured SA work is well underway to secure emergency power solutions ECR_Newswatch Eskom
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa gave an update on actions taken to achieve a stable grid on Friday."This pipeline has grown to 10 000MW.
We do expect that the first of these projects will be connected to the grid by the end of this calendar year," he said."The work is at an advance stage to procure emergency power solutions for a period not more than five years, it's important that it's not more than five years because its an emergency."
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