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The impact of South Africa’s power crisis

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 13th, 2008 posted in: South Africa

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By Reinhard Cluse and John Orford

• Power shortages are due to under-investment and high downtime Power shortages reflect low reserve margins and poor plant availability due to high levels of unplanned maintenance. Planned energy capacity expansion and demand savings will boost reserve margins but this represents, in our view, a best-case [...]

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