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Power utility Eskom has continued to call on South Africans and the corporate world to make a 10% savings on electricity.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the tightness of the system we understand that Eskom cannot reach energy savings working alone\u2026 it must include others,\u201d Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Gigaba said while the role played by companies in heeding the call to save power was appreciated, the situation \u201cwe\u2019re in requires that we change the way we use energy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gigaba added that stakeholders were being engaged on implementing a voluntary energy saving scheme.<\/p>\n
Eskom Chief Executive Brian Dames said the 10% savings across all the parastatal\u2019s customers was envisaged in the Energy Conservation Scheme developed by Eskom, customers and government in 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to go back to load-shedding,\u201d Dames said at the company\u2019s first quarterly briefing this year.<\/p>\n
Eskom is no longer able to sustain a system where it shifts planned maintenance and delays maintenance outages in order to meet the country\u2019s energy requirements. Most of South Africa\u2019s power stations have reached their mid-life and require more maintenance.<\/p>\n
In the last two years, a backlog of maintenance outages has developed but this has been reduced from 36 to 25 units.<\/p>\n
The power utility was yet to decide what it would ask the National Electricity Regulator of SA (Nersa) in tariff determination.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom our perspective, we know that we have price increases every three years and now we\u2019re in the second year. So this year we have to do our preparations for the next tariff increase. We\u2019ve not decided what to apply for; we \u2026 will work through a process of understanding the impact on the economy. The country and the world \u2013 from an economic perspective \u2013 is in a very difficult position. We understand that clearly,\u201d explained Dames.<\/p>\n
The system is expected to remain tight until the introduction of the first unit of the Medupi station comes in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are confident that we are on top of the situation leading up to 2013. We are calling for active citizenship,\u201d said Gigaba.<\/p>\n
The parastatal had done a lot of maintenance work in December 2011. Since the power cuts in 2008, Eskom coal stockpiles have been replenished at healthy levels and the addition of 2537 MW of new capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cElectricity is an important input that can help growth or impede it,\u201d said Gigaba. \u2013 BuaNews<\/p>\n
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