Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said they will significantly reduce load-shedding in the next few months and end it in 2024.that the outlook for ending load-shedding is positive as they are adding additional capacity to the grid.
“Your lights should be on for most of the day and 24 hours. The lights should be on,” Ramokgopa said. Ramokgopa’s latest load-shedding outlook followed promises from President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile that load-shedding will end in 2024. “Energy has been a great drawback to us, but we are working on it, and we are certain that by 2024, the energy crisis will be over,” Ramaphosa said.Hilton TrollipEskom’s claimed reduction in unplanned outages is “simply not true according to Eskom’s own data”.
“One also has to consider that the units Eskom plans to return at Kusile and Medupi have had historical problems, and it is unlikely that they will return to service smoothly,” he said. However, Yelland highlighted that three of Kusile’s generation units will not run at full capacity because of emission controls and other constraints.Another concern is that they will not continuously run at the planned 710 MW or even 550 MW if their historical performance is anything to go by.