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Mpho Makwana, the new chair of Eskom, has backed incumbent CEO Andre de Ruyter and set his sights on bringing down the price of electricity by reducing the cost of coal supplied to its plants while also improving the quality of the fuel it receives.
\nIn an interview with Business Times this week, Makwana spoke about the link between Eskom\u2019s climate commitments and the cost of coal supplied to the company. The vast majority of Eskom\u2019s power-generating plants are fired by coal \u2014 most of them have outdated, less efficient emission-filtration systems \u2014 and the state-owned company has come under particular scrutiny in light of SA\u2019s global commitments to reduce carbon emissions.
\n\u201cThe reality is that we will have to fulfil our climate-change reduction commitments in line with what the country is capable of delivering, given where we are,\u201d Makwana said.
\nOne of SA\u2019s advantages, he pointed out, was that \u201cthe quality of our coal is low in sulphur content\u201d.