Exclusive: South Africa faces power cuts as Eskom units down – internal report

Exclusive: South Africa faces power cuts as Eskom units down – internal report Reuters By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa faces power cuts with 15 units down at nine Eskom stations, taking over 6,000 megawatts or 13 percent of the utility's output off the national grid, an internal document seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday. Eskom provides more than 90 percent of the power for Africa's most industrialised economy, but the state-owned utility has been hit by labour unrest over wage talks as it tries to reverse a decade of financial decline by cutting costs The post Exclusive: South Africa faces power cuts as Eskom units down – internal report appeared first on Firstpost. FirstPost