Power to the People, Right On.
“When Eskom said to the government: ‘We think we must invest more in terms of electricity generation’, we said no, but all you will be doing is just to build excess capacity,”
This according to President Thabo Mbeki, is the why the country is currently experiencing its rolling power outages. Government had so little faith in ESKOM’s intentions that they would not allow ESKOM to build additional capacity. Clearly there was a disconnect between Government economists chanting the 4% growth mantra and the engineers who needed to supply the lifeblood of the economy – electricity.
This is yet another example of the disjointed manner in which planning is done in the public sector.
Categories: Electricity, Planning
