President Cyril Ramaphosa has blamed “an act of sabotage” for contributing to the recent load shedding. He also assured the country that there will be no load shedding from December 17 till January 13.
“What has also come out as a great concern is that there has been a measure of sabotage, sabotage that has lead to the loss – during this period – of 2 000MW, where someone in the Eskom system disconnected one of the instruments that finally lead to one of the boilers tripping, and us losing as much as 2 000MW,” Ramaphosa said after a meeting with Eskom management on Wednesday.
Ramaphosa said law enforcement agencies were looking into the sabotage at the Tutuka power station. He said that the sabotage, in conjunction with wet coal and other factors, led to Eskom implementing stage 6 load-shedding on Monday night. He said Eskom was dealing with a system that was constrained and has been neglected and that 5000MW of additional capacity was needed to provide relief to the system.“We would have to look at the business case for this, how much the gas will it be, how much it will cost, etc,” Oberholzer said.
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