Johnathan Paoli
Electricity Minister in the Presidency, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has praised Eskom’s performance and said the improvement in power production was the result of intended, deliberate action and engineering at work at the power utility.
Ramokgopa was briefing the media on the state of the Energy Action Plan on Monday. He said that the recent boost in performance of Eskom’s grid can be attributed to a conflux of factors and thanked everyone involved in turning the crisis around, saying while they were not out of the woods yet, they have been making strides.
“Essentially we have undermined the rate and frequency of failure of these units, in terms of their reliability, and secondly we have improved on the efficiency in order to improve production closer to their design capacity,” Ramokgopa said.
The minister said that the trendline, a comparative trajectory in relation to performance during the month of May earlier
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