Big business: Here’s what we need to do to get more electricity

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New capacity must urgently be added to the electricity grid to address load-shedding in SA, not destabilising Eskom's management, says Business Unity SA CEO Cas Coovadia.

ByCas Coovadia says Business Unity SA has offered to mobilise capacity to work with the Eskom leadership. File photo.New capacity must urgently be added to the electricity grid to address the load-shedding that SA has experienced for more than 13 years, not destabilising Eskom’s management, says big business.

“Despite the deep maintenance programme, the trend shows an increasingly worsening energy availability factor with more and more faults identified and more unplanned outages because of the ageing and poorly maintained plants.”or termination of the Eskom executive and board. “It does not help to exacerbate the ongoing operational crisis by creating a leadership and governance crisis at Eskom.

“We are of the view this leadership has taken the tough decisions, shown remarkable openness and transparency and, critically, developed a progressive, future-looking plan that will see the diversification and decarbonisation of the electricity supply system in SA.”

 

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