One can see where the Minister is coming from. Current electricity prices are too low to fund new investment necessary to restore supply security. Average generation prices of around 12 c/kWh are less than half the cost of new coal-fired generation plant. The recently installed turbines, which are keeping the lights on over the Cape winter, produce power at a cost much higher than even the highest industrial tariff.
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