Ramokgopa: Lethabo is best performing power station

SASOLBURG - Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa's efforts to fight rolling power cuts continues.

Ramokgopa visited the Lethabo power station in the Free State.

It's one of the country's best performing stations.

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Ramokgopa says if all power plants can reach Lethabo's level, the country wouldn't be experiencing power cuts.

"What is exciting about Lethabo is that they've maintained that performance over an extended period of time," he said.

"They've set a target for themselves to take it to about 79 percent of the energy availability factor.

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"We're happy about the performance of Lethabo, the units have been performing exceptionally well so here it's a good story to tell," the minister said.

"If all the power plants were to perform at this level, we wouldn't have this thing called load-shedding."

* eNCA’s Heidi Giokos reports.