“While we work on becoming independent from Eskom, we will stabilise our electricity infrastructure by increasing the budget available for repairs and maintenance and investing in new and upgraded infrastructure,” he said.
The city came under fire after it failed to deliver on its promise not to implement load-shedding at the weekend after it said it had signed an extension of a power purchase agreement with Kelvin power station giving it an extra 220MW. reported on Sunday Moerane was furious with the power utility as the city had taken all possible steps to prevent power outages. He accused Eskom of heavy-handedness and vowed to take it to court.
“City power will follow and implement the directive of the system operator and implement load-shedding on its customers in the city of Johannesburg as required. The collective understanding by both entities is to protect the national power grid while reducing the impact of load-shedding,” said spokesperson Isaac Mangena.
It's funny he couldn't resolve this while he was still a mayor of Gauteng
HermanMashaba, what was the proactive CityofJoburgZA CityPowerJhb maintenance budget when he was Mayor. As for independent suppliers, what is Kelvin? What about CityofJoburgZA own, ibid, expensive generation capacity? Has he read Government's policy on independent suppliers?
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