PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of measures to fix Eskom in a desperate bid to prevent load-shedding, saying the shortage of electricity remained a huge constraint on economic growth and job creation in the country.
He said these key measures were preferable to declaring a state of disaster or even emergency, as some have suggested.
The president was addressing the nation on his administration’s plans to fix the country’s energy crisis.
Ramaphosa said, among others, skilled personnel are being sourced locally and from abroad, including former Eskom staff to help with generation issues at the power utility.
Other measures announced by Ramaphosa include, allowing private households to generate solar power and sell it back into the grid, procurement of additional baseload capacity from renewables and gas and accelerating private sector involvement in energy generation.
The president further announced the establishment of a National Energy Crisis Committee involving the
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