{"id":259135,"date":"2023-05-05T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/electricity-minister-to-visit-oem-plants-in-eastern-cape\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:23:45","slug":"electricity-minister-to-visit-oem-plants-in-eastern-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/electricity-minister-to-visit-oem-plants-in-eastern-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Minister to visit OEM plants in Eastern Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202305\/ramokgopa2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Minister in the Presidency&nbsp;responsible for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is expected to visit Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) in the Eastern Cape today.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister will visit the Volkswagen (VW) and Isuzu plants based in Gqeberha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister\u2019s visit to the OEM&#8217;s is part of his continuous engagements with the automotive industry on their challenges caused by the current electricity crisis and possible short to medium term solutions,\u201d his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Friday\u2019s visit, Ramokgopa on Thursday visited the chief executive officer of the Mercedes-Benz East London manufacturing plant Andreas Brand.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Ramokgopa said government is confident that by the end of this financial year, Eskom\u2019s Energy Availability Factor will have reached at least 60%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making interventions at the three units at Kusile [power station] that were taken out of operation as a result of a technical failure and there we will get 2100MW. So we are confident of where we can get these megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut like I\u2019ve said, it takes a bit of time to construct those stacks and there\u2019s only two companies in the country that can do that. Both companies have been engaged [and] they are running shifts of 24 hours \u2026 they are working flat out.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s part of the reason we are confident \u2026 we will get those megawatts by December of this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramokgopa added that government and Eskom are doing all it can to resolve the electricity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done everything possible from an engineering point of view to make sure that we throw all the resources to resolve that problem,\u201d he said. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister in the Presidency&nbsp;responsible for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is expected to visit Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) in the Eastern Cape today. The Minister will visit the Volkswagen (VW) and Isuzu plants based in Gqeberha. \u201cThe Minister\u2019s visit to the OEM&#8217;s is part of his continuous engagements with the automotive industry on their challenges caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-259135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/electricity-minister-to-visit-oem-plants-in-eastern-cape.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}