“We want to bring down unplanned capacity loss factor. Addressing ash dumps, cooling towers and the likes, they contribute to reducing the breakdowns to about 15 000MW at any given time. Our ambition is to go significantly lower than that.”
One of the interventions includes two additional hybrid projects from the risk mitigation independent power procurement programme, which have been approved by the Eskom board.“They will now proceed to legal close and are expected to reach a close by the end of June this year. They will add an additional 274MW to the grid,” said Ramokgopa.
“My counterpart in Mozambique and Eskom counterpart in Mozambique indicated that in the immediate, we will be offered about 80MW and in the next six months, we will get about 1000MW,” said Ramokgopa.The electricity minister said Eskom was working to reduce load shedding to “significant or tolerable” levels.
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