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Breaking point: Eskom metrics, projections show parastatal's decline will not end anytime soon

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Eskom CEO André de Ruyter.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter.
Alet Pretorius/News24

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.

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