South Africa will face near continuous load shedding for at least the next two years while 6 000 MW in planned private sector projects to generate electricity from solar and wind are built and commissioned.
Eskom's decline, meanwhile, has reached what some are calling "breaking point", with a record R12 billion spent on diesel to run the utility's open cycle gas turbines since 1 April.
The older, unreliable coal stations in Eskom's fleet cannot be fixed properly without the additional capacity that has been called for since December 2019.