Over the coming weeks, the task team will conduct technical reviews at some of the utlity’s power stations.
The Minerals Council South Africa on Tuesday applauded the establishment of an engineering task team to assess challenges at state utility Eskom’s power stations.
After a meeting of stakeholders to discuss the utility’s problems, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan accepted an offer to establish an expert team to help address them and a list of 18 engineers assembled by the Minerals Council and the Energy Intensive User Group of Southern Africa was submitted to him.
The Minerals Council said on Tuesday: “Subsequently, a small coordinating team has been established under the leadership of Dr Tsakani Mthombeni and Mr Ian Morison, who has been seconded by Anglo American.”
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