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Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter said that if Eskom failed to fix its many problems, it would pose a strategic risk to the country.
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CAPE TOWN – Eskom warned Thursday of an impending shortfall in generating capacity as it decommissioned several aging and obsolete power plants.
Eskom management gave an update on the company’s operations.
Andre de Ruyter said that if Eskom failed to solve its many problems, it would pose a strategic risk to the country.
He said that several power plants had reached the end of their useful life. This meant that considerable generation capacity would have to be phased out and the risk of loss of load was still here to stay.
“So we will take 8,000 to 12,000 megawatts of capacity out of service over the next 10 years and that will obviously create a small drop in generation capacity going forward.”
But de Ruyter said there was light at the end of the tunnel and welcomed the acquisition of 11,000 megawatts for the electrical system, which will hopefully lessen planned blackouts.
“The impending shortfall of a generational capacity for which we are very grateful is Nersa’s agreement with Minister Mantashe’s determination of a procurement process to add 11.8 GW to the grid. We believe this is urgent.”
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