SOUTH Africa’s newly appointed electricity minister warned that record electricity outages could get even worse and said the state power utility’s performance targets need to be reviewed to determine whether they are appropriate.
“All indications are that it is going to be difficult” as electricity demand increases going into winter and the dire energy situation could deteriorate further, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office on Friday.
“We need to set explicit targets” and those must be met to provide confidence to business, the markets and households that the crisis is being addressed, he said.
Africa’s most-industrialised nation has been subjected to rolling blackouts every day this year as Eskom Holdings, the state company that supplies about 90% of the nation’s electricity, fails to meet demand from its dilapidated plants. President Cyril Ramaphosa this month named Ramokgopa as electricity minister, a new position in the presidency, and
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