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Bloomberg reports that the National Energy Crisis Committee, a body run by the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa, expects record power outages to ease as measures — including a new law to fast-track plant development — take effect.
The committee, of which several cabinet ministers are members, told business and labour leaders on Monday that a range of interventions are being made at a time when South Africans were enduring blackouts of as many as 12 hours a day. “As these measures take effect, the supply of electricity will significantly improve,” the committee, known as Necom, opined. The measures that Necom said might ease the crisis include the following: The first of more than 100 privately owned power plants being developed will connect to the grid by the end of 2023; emergency legislation is being developed to allow the faster approval and development of power plants; contracts for the construction of plants that will produce 2,800MW of renewable energy for the grid have been signed and construction will soon begin; as much as 1,000MW may be imported this year from neighbouring countries and Eskom will buy 1,000MW of excess energy from private producers who already have facilities; six of Eskom’s 14 coal-fired power plants have been “identified for particular focus” in a bid to get them to perform more reliably; efforts to finish incomplete plants and maintenance of other major units are being made; and the time to complete regulatory processes for new plants has been reduced.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Antony Sguazzin at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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