South Africa is beginning to turn the corner in resolving the energy crisis.

This is according to Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, who was briefing the media on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan in Pretoria on Monday.

Improved performance of Eskom’s generating fleet meant the suspension of load shedding (planned power cuts) over the past weekend and much lower stages of the planned power outages during the week.

“We have turned the corner, although we are not out of the woods yet. We are beginning to show sustained improved performance over an extended period of time and this is good news in that it’s an affirmation and validation of the work that the team is doing at Eskom (the national power generation company),” he said.

The Minister said the intensification of maintenance plans at Eskom are beginning to have a positive impact despite a difficult period in September when load shedding was intensified as a result of maintenance outages.

These maintenance outages are aimed at reducing the incidence of generating units tripping on their own and improving performance.

“These plans that have been put into motion are beginning to bear fruit. I did indicate some time ago when we were experiencing heightened levels of load shedding Stage 6, that essentially what we are dealing with is short term pain which is going to result in long term gain and we are beginning to see the kinds of gains that I was referring to.

“Our actions are deliberate. We are going to invest a lot of our efforts to ensure that we are able to maintain the units,” he said.

Ramokgopa insisted that both Eskom and the department will not show any signs of complacency going forward.

“It’s important that we shouldn’t be complacent and we have never been complacent…even when are beginning to see … green shoots. I think what that does is just bolster and raise the morale of the team to ensure that we even achieved greater results and we are able to save the South African economy.

“We introduced these interventions when we came into office, after the President appointed and sat with the team and thought the best way of getting out of this situation is to ensure that we make these investments into these units. What are the results – when the units come back, they remain on load for the longest period of hours.

“Essentially we have undermined the rate and frequency of failure of these units. We have improved on their efficiency. They are beginning to produce more… closer to their design capacity. This is not by accident. It’s not some intervention that comes from a place that is unknown. It is simple engineering and we really want to commend the team,” he said.

My phone app shows no power cuts for days now. Power used to go out 2 to 3 times a day for 2 hours each session.

Thundafireseun:
We don’t care

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TMKsouth:
My phone app shows no power cuts for days now. Power used to go out 2 to 3 times a day for 2 hours each session.

What can we learn from the South Africans . This one only knows how to bring light that spoils your laptops or leave you in darkness minimum 6hours.

Nigeria comes to mind

Wish them all the best. Nigeria could learn from them, this isn't about pride...

SA is a progressive country unlike my country.

Kudos to the white SA folks.

parkervero:
SA is a progressive country unlike my country.

Kudos to the white SA folks.

1. Electricity minister (black)
2. Eskom CEO, black (coloured)
3. Eskom board chairperson (black)

Black excellence 🇿🇦⭐⭐⭐

So their blackouts been dey reach 4-6 hours per day? ...and I bin think say na for like only 1hr in three days


Well all this one nor concern us.... we've got bigger problems over here

But light is constant in Ghana... Through out my 3 months stay.. Light was on less your meter card ran out

parkervero:
SA is a progressive country unlike my country.

Kudos to the white SA folks.

So, the blue and the orange "SA folks" are mere spectators

We dont give a fvck bout it. . .

sltn:
We dont give a fvck bout it. . .

U gave a fvck when there were daily blackouts - front page news in Nigeria. Good SA news is bitter, i know.

TMKsouth:


1. Electricity minister (black)
2. Eskom CEO, black (coloured)
3. Eskom board chairperson (black)

Black excellence 🇿🇦⭐⭐⭐

They handed a great country to your ancestors. They built the foundation to completion before handed to you guys.

parkervero:


They handed a great country to your ancestors. They built the foundation to completion before handed to you guys.

They also handed us a bankrupt state - your white gods. I know it will kill u to acknowledge black successes in SA because you cant handle another black person outperforming you. Threatens your giant of africa false sense of importance.

TMKsouth:


They also handed us a bankrupt state - your white gods. I know it will kill u to acknowledge black successes in SA because you cant handle another black person outperforming you. Threatens your giant of africa false sense of importance.

Dont boda replying Nigerians..


Leave them..


They also handed a perfect country to us, how did we manage it?

TMKsouth:


They also handed us a bankrupt state - your white gods. I know it will kill u to acknowledge black successes in SA because you cant handle another black person outperforming you. Threatens your giant of africa false sense of importance.

Stop it whites educated you and they even enslaved you people during the apartheid era..... you guys should read the poem"Nightfall in Soweto"..... "nightfall comes like a dreaded disease seeping through the pores of a healthy human being and ravaging it beyond repairs".............At the ending of the poem the black South Africans lamented bitterly about night time which was when they were dehumanized, enslaved and brutalised by the whites and the lamentation went thus ,"nightfall nightfall you are my mortal enemy,but why were you ever created why not let it be daytime and daytime forever more" ......hmmmmm😭

Wetin concerns my country, with this kind of news😆 no be national cake na😇

Mrtaye:

Stop it whites educated you and they even enslaved you people during the apartheid era.....

While Nigeria was snoozing, the blacks in South Africa were building new power stations - some of the biggest in the world. That's why SA boasts 40,000MW🇿🇦 generation capacity and your ancestors only built 3,000MW🇳🇬 capacity which just last week collapsed to 25MW for a country of 250-million people.

I understand why you wanna praise SA whites for everything, to lessen the pain of being outperformed by black South Africans.

See our brand new power stations - Medupi and Kusile. #BlackSAexcellence 🇿🇦⭐⭐⭐ This is gonna destroy una as a volunteer white worship spokesperson 💩💩💩

Congratulations SA. Some of us won't, in any way, be surprised. You got it right in education, access to healthcare, and now stable electricity... Madiba will certainly be proud of you.

Congratulations to SA. Do you know that Nigeria means darkness that is why we want Biafra

Tinubu high on white substance and left the chat

TMKsouth:


While Nigeria was snoozing, the blacks in South Africa were building new power stations - some of the biggest in the world. That's why SA boasts 40,000MW🇿🇦 generation capacity and your ancestors only built 3,000MW🇳🇬 capacity which just last week collapsed to 25MW for a country of 250-million people.

I understand why you wanna praise SA whites for everything, to lessen the pain of being outperformed by black South Africans.

See our brand new power stations - Medupi and Kusile. #BlackSAexcellence 🇿🇦⭐⭐⭐ This is gonna destroy una as a volunteer white worship spokesperson 💩💩💩

Of all I wrote you could only quote this few hmmm........ have you read the poem"Nightfall in Soweto" ... it's about the lamentation of black South Africans when they were under bondage of the White

Mrtaye:

Of all I wrote you could only quote this few hmmm........ have you read the poem"Nightfall in Soweto" ... it's about the lamentation of black South Africans when they were under bondage of the White

And now they're building world-class power stations and not sitting in perpetual darkness like you.

TMKsouth:


And now they're building world-class power stations and not sitting in perpetual darkness like you.

"They"? Who are the they😄 you people are feeling among all thanks to the whites who is still maintaining their power as the fulcrum of a modern southy

Mrtaye:

"They"? Who are the they😄 you people are feeling among all thanks to the whites who is still maintaining their power as the fulcrum of a modern southy

U mean these new 4,000MW each power stations built by the black government 🤷🏽‍♂️ No amount of denialism will change this fact. You're making a fool of yourself.

Wao

They took my light here today for the last one month.

Congrats Teanubu on your supreme court victory.

Please advice your minister of power to carry his paper and biro and learn from SA power minister.

Your country is frustrating enough.