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South Africa’s plans to avert energy crisis in future well under way
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TagsRegulatory and Governance, Renewable Energy, Rural Electrification
Efforts to ensure that South Africa not only resolves the current electricity crisis but never again has to sit with an energy crisis are well under way and gaining traction.
This was according to Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa earlier today as he provided the weekly update on the president’s Energy Action Plan (EAP).
Ramokgopa said the team at Eskom had been hard at work to ensure that the poor state of Eskom’s operations were addressed as part of one of the key emphasis of the EAP, in particular addressing the numerous challenges faced in terms of generation capacity.
In addition to that, he said they had been working hard at intensifying the relationship the state entity had with the original equipment manufacturers to ensure that they were able to improve the availability of spare parts.
In keeping up with this initiative, he said they also had to look at addressing regulation legislation that was applicable to the procurement environment in the public sector, in particular the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).