South Africa Plans New Law to Increase Power Capacity
- Private power plants to produce 9,000 megawatts are planned
- Emergency legislation to accelerate projects being developed
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South Africa’s National Energy Crisis Committee, a body run by the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa, expects record power outages to ease as measures including a new law to fast-track plant development take effect.
The committee, which includes several cabinet ministers, told business and labor leaders on Monday that a range of interventions have been made at a time when South Africans are enduring blackouts of as long as 12 hours a day.