Collaboration
It was all part of government’s Energy Action Plan, launched in July 2022, which involved collaboration between government, business, and other social partners.
Since then, Eskom launched its Generation Operational Recovery Plan, stepping up the maintenance schedule of power stations.
They also made the best and most obvious decision of all – bringing some engineers out of retirement to lend their expertise to the projects.
Over the past two years, Koeberg was stabilised and the Kusile Power Station’s Unit 5 was finally commissioned, adding a much-needed 800MW to the grid.
That is all at a national level, but in the Western Cape, the City of Cape Town had its own to reduce our reliance on Eskom.
The procurement process for independent power producers was finished in record time and…