[miningmx.com] – SOUTH African energy minister, Ben Martins, announced power utility, Eskom, would cut back plans to repair plants during winter to ensure the country avoided load-shedding, said Business Report.
“What we seek to do is to obviate the challenge we had a couple of weeks ago,’ Martins said. “We are assuring that as winter approaches, we will not have blackouts; we are ensuring that the maintenance that Eskom has to carry out will be reduced as much as possible over winter.’
In its system status bulletin later yesterday, Eskom said it was continuing with its planned maintenance schedule but it was winding it down to prepare for winter.
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