Jonathan Paoli
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa gave a media update on the expected increase in power generating capacity, despite setbacks, he said.
Ramokgopa briefed members of the media on Monday, about the status of implementing the Energy Action Plan at GCIS Auditorium, Tshedimosetso House, Pretoria.
“We should be able to get to a stage where we are able to firstly build resilience and reliability of these units, but also create an additional buffer.” he said, claiming a sufficient reserve margin is required to assist the generating capacity as a whole.
Ramokgopa went on to discuss how the concept of electricity availability factor fails to adequately illustrate the real situation, since it remains only an aggregation of all the 14 power stations.
He added that additional set backs were caused by some units not recovering as expected. Ramokgopa said the failure to return these units has also reduced generation capacity, adding
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