Ramokgopa outlines ‘twin challenges’ to defeating rolling blackouts

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has outlined what he considers the ‘twin challenges’ of underperforming pre-existing generation capacity and the structural constraints to adding new generation capacity through transmission.

In a media briefing on Sunday, the minister of electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, outlined what he considered the “twin challenges” that defined South Africa’s electricity crisis and the country’s beleaguered grid.

Ramokgopa explained that the issues related to generation and transmission represented the “twin challenges that should be addressed for us to be able to resolve the load shedding problem”.