Government is the cause of load-shedding and only it can solve the problem.
Stage 6 load shedding costs SA over R4 billion a day, which will shrink GDP in Q3. This makes unblocking window 5 for IPPs all the more urgent, says Business Leadership SA. Back in July, economists already started tallying the losses to the economy. Cape Town and Joburg are now scrambling to move away from Eskom’s grid on warnings of ‘unprecedented outages’, There are solutions, writes Busi Mavus, IF the government can take rapid measures to get the flow of energy plants from the IPPs up and running.