A candle is used during load shedding in South Africa.
Outgoing Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter has conceded that 2023 will be a challenging year, but is optimistic thatDe Ruyter was taking part in a discussion at the ongoing mining indaba in Cape Town. He says there is new generation capacity that’s in the pipeline. “Increasingly, we are seeing that we are able to attract more private sector generation to the grid. We see it in our stats, people who connect to the grid; we also see it in number collated at Nersa. There’s more than 9000mw of new capacity, which is either in the capacity of being built or in the process of going through engineering, and EIA processes to get connected to the grid,” says de Ruyter.“I think the important thing to emphasise is that we shouldn’t stop there.