Cape Town - Seven countries in southern Africa have power agreements with South Africa’s power monopoly Eskom but Zimbabwe and Zambia could have their power supply interrupted, Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has told MPs.
In a written reply to TR Majola, a DA MP, who asked about Eskom’s agreements with the countries in the South African Power Pool relating to the importation and exportation of electricity which are firm or non-firm agreements, Brown said Eskom has power purchase agreements or power sales agreements with various entities in the seven countries in the pool.
The firm agreements are those that could not be interrupted and the non-firm were those where energy is supplied as and when it is available, and these are subject to interruption.