Business, govt collaboration demonstrates improvements in multiple crises

Business is working to add more than 10 GW of generation capacity to the electricity system by the end of next year, which would effectively end loadshedding in South Africa, Sasol president and CEO Fleetwood Grobler said on the first day of the Joburg Indaba on October 4. Speaking in his additional capacity as the chairperson of the Energy Council of South Africa, he told delegates that various businesses were focusing on improving the energy availability factor and the efficiency of power utility Eskom, as well as adding new generation capacity and reforming the energy sector.