NATIONAL NEWS - South Africans will be spared power cuts through winter.
This is according to Eskom chief executive, Brian Molefe.
Briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on public enterprises, Molefe and his team said they were on track with its maintenance programme to ensure there’s enough capacity througout winter.
“We’ll continue with our rigorous programme of planned maintenance without loadshedding,” he said, adding that the country has now gone over 200 days without the lights going out.
“During winter we’ll have slightly less maintenance than we are having at the moment.”
Molefe said the power utility had made strides in meeting peak electricity demand, with an average of 74 percent of installed capacity being on line every day.
He did, however, add a disclaimer: “That does not mean things won’t go wrong.”
