Eskom Ramps Up South Africa Power Outages After Units Fail
- National electricity grid remains unpredictable, CEO says
- Utility has awarded contracts for battery-storage projects
High voltage electricity transmission pylons close to the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Matla coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s embattled state-owned power utility, added more hours of rolling blackouts on Wednesday and extended cuts until the weekend after four generation units broke down.
The company, which has lurched from one breakdown crisis to the next, implemented outages in all but two months of 2021 and every month this year except for January. Access to electricity has been interrupted intermittently since 2008 and blackouts appears headed for a record this year.