In the period 1960 until 1992 Eskom installed 19 power stations. That means every 20 months, a new power station comes online – on time, on budget!
Eskom was able to reduce the real price of electricity by 35%, and they could foresee that by the end of the century (2000) they should be able to reduce the real price of electricity by another 10%.
It is said that Eskom produced 56 gigawatts of electricity with 17 000 employees in 1994. It now produces (on a good day) in the order of 27 Gigawatts of electricity with 47 000 employees. As the ‘Mericans would say: “Do the maths”!
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