'Eskom conducting planned outages for power station maintenance'

Electricity Minister, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, says Eskom is currently implementing planned outages to do maintenance of its power stations.

says Eskom is currently implementing planned outages to do maintenance of its power stations.Ramokgopa says they also want to ramp up renewable energy production to help boost energy availability.The Minister says the current high levels of rolling blackouts are a result of ramping up planned outages for maintenance. And that this is necessary in the short term to help improve energy availability for the future.

‘Our intentions is to make sure that these units become more reliable so that we can get Megawatts that we need , that is why it is important that we must invest in planned maintenance. What you are seeing now is stage which is controlled from side.” And that about 85 billion rand has been allocated to black-owned businesses. The total amount of energy generated by renewable energy is 95 500 gigawatts.

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