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Big Mining Houses are tired of the constant disruption to production that Eskom mismanagement and corruption have caused and have already begun urgent planning to make power generation more stable, by using alternative solar panel energy generation.

Gold Fields’ plans show that they can obtain about 20% of their energy consumption from clean renewable solar, which can operate for the next two decades.

Gold Fields is planning a new “Sonplaas” which will be erected outside Johannesburg and is expected to be ready within three years, but unfortunately the corrupt ANC still needs to approve the plan, so now the mining house has to wait for the ANC minister to issue the certificate so that they can proceed with the project, which will probably mean “greasing some corrupt official’s palm”.

The Mine has lost Millions of Rand in recent weeks with the rolling power cuts, and the Minister’s approach of dragging th
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The ANC’s president’s dreams are shattering at this time because of the huge tariff increases Eskom is now charging the municipalities.

Big institutions say they are tired of Eskom’s reckless tariff adjustments, and some industrialists have already packed up and left the country.

Industries that is depended for electricity to the manufacture of certain goods, such as the aluminium industry, have already left the country and moved their businesses to the Far East where power supply is stable and tariffs are much cheaper.

Anglo Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater are two high profile industries that have already started investigating how to generate their own electricity to get rid of Eskom’s unpredictability with power delivery and tariff adjustments.

Meanwhile, many smaller businesses have begun to become self-sufficient with solar and standby generators and in many cases even cut their Eskom connections.

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