SA’s electricity crisis | Brace yourself for more rolling blackouts

JOHANNESBURG - Brace yourself for more rolling blackouts.

That's the warning from Eskom Chief Operations Officer Jan Oberholzer.

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This as the power utility says it’ll require about a trillion rand to resolve the country’s energy crisis in the next decade and half.

Oberholzer was speaking at an AGRI SA congress underway in Pretoria.

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He said Eskom plans to retire nine of its 13 coal-powered stations in the next decade, and will rely on hybrid energy systems, which include battery storage systems, renewables, and nuclear energy from Koeberg, whose lifespan is being extended by an additional 20 years.

* eNCA’s Moloko Moloto reports.