Cape Town – The South African power utility Eskom has announced its plans to implement permanent stage 2 or 3 load shedding to give more a predictable schedule.
Eskom’s board chairperson Mpho Makwana said that these stages would be implemented for two years, as the power utility tried to resolve the electricity crisis.
He said the plan aimed to raise Eskom’s “energy availability factor” from about 58% to 65% by March next year and have it at 70% by March 2025.
Makwana also elaborated on Eskom’s plant performance recovery plan.
“The recovery of generation performance will not happen within a short space of time, the execution of the recovery plan requires that power stations are given space and headroom to execute the recovery plan.
“This requires either adding additional capacity to create space to do proper maintenance without firefighting, or create some predictability by implementing a permanent stage 2 or 3 for the next two years in order to give sufficient space for maintenance while giving the country a level of predictability or consistency to plan the livelihoods better.
“Shuttling from one stage to another within a short space of time is not good for the business community,” said Makwana,
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Compiled by Olwethu Mpeshe
