South Africa faces another 18 months of regular load shedding and won’t be able to end them until sufficient generating capacity is added to the electricity grid to meet demand, Eskom Chief Operating Officer Jan Oberholzer said. "We need another year or year-and-a-half to get out of this," Oberholzer said at the Agri SA conference near Johannesburg on Thursday. Work that Eskom has done to alleviate the country’s energy crisis will help ensure the situation won’t be as dire as it might have been. The bids for about 4 000 hectares are ultimately for projects expected to realise 1 800 megawatts of renewable energy capacity. An announcement followed that the board of state power utility Eskom had been replaced and an ambitious efficiency target for its predominantly coal-fired plants was set.

Source: News 24 October 13, 2022 23:04 UTC