Improved power integration in SADC will better energy security

State capture, high debts, lack of coal, an aging power station fleet, failures at the newly-built Medupi and Kusile power stations, poor maintenance of its older power stations, troublesome debtors and high costly diesel usage have left most convinced that Eskom has reached an irreversible critical point, as each one of these challenges further has the potential of being a fatal flaw.

Meanwhile, the planned unbundling of the utility can only exacerbate the problem as the Eskom’s generation business unit shall then be fully exposed as insolvent and unsustainable.