South Africans enjoyed a weekend without load shedding after the utility announced that rotational blackouts were no longer needed and the energy grid was stable on Friday, last week. However now due to breakdowns that occurred over the weekend at the Matimba, Duvha, and Arnot power stations, this may no longer be the case.
The President continues to say that the country’s fleet of coal-fired power stations is old, with performance continuing to deteriorate across the grid. He writes that, despite warnings from energy experts for nearly two decades, South Africa experienced a delay in upgrading its power stations in time.
The President adds that more efforts have been made to connect additional private power generators to the grid, with a few renewable energy projects now adding much-needed electricity to the country’s system and a further 58 more projects in the pipeline currently “under development.”