South Africa's power shortages reached their highest level on Thursday, an Eskom spokesperson said.
Nearly all of the country's electricity production comes from state-owned utility Eskom Holdings Ltd.
Eskom says that power exports are reduced when there is a shortage at home.
The plant already provides 110MW of gas-fuelled power to EDM and the South African utility Eskom.
Eskom says it risks running out of electricity while it builds two coal power stations.
Eskom, the state-owned utility, has been encouraging mining firms to limit production to avoid power cuts.
But the biggest criticism of the reactor is that it is not as safe as Eskom claims.
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In 1997, Sarita van Coller, a white woman, applied for a job at Eskom, the state-owned electricity provider.
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Yet it is plain that, out of state hands, Eskom would be harder to boss about, however indirectly.
Reuel Khoza, the new black boss of Eskom, the state electricity company, made a startlingly outspoken speech last year.
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In early 2008 South Africa's state-run utility, Eskom, announced that it could not produce enough electricity to satisfy demand.
But a debate within the government over Eskom's future, and the role of the private sector, also held things up.
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On October 30th rumours first circulated that the board had asked Jacob Maroga, Eskom's chief executive, who is black, to step down.
The National Energy Regulator found that last year's outages in the Western Cape were largely due to Eskom's negligence and improper maintenance.
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They took the drastic measure after state power company Eskom said it could not guarantee supplies, raising fears of miners being trapped underground.
The withdrawal is a blow for Eskom, which had seen its American partner as a way of encouraging American regulators to license the reactor.
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Analysts cite reports that the National Union of Mineworkers has called upon its members at the state-owned energy provider Eskom to prepare for a strike.
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Power utility Eskom has indicated it has contingency plans, Steel said.
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Since the Eskom case, new legislation has complicated matters further.
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Eskom has ambitious expansion plans for the next four years, but the company's current difficulties stem from a failure by government to approve capital expenditure programmes in the late 1990s.
The next day it emerged that both men had offered their resignations to Eskom's board on October 28th after a stormy discussion over the direction the troubled company should take.
He believes that Eskom's estimates of how much it would cost to build and run are hopelessly out of line with experience of nuclear technology in the rest of the world.
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Eskom, the state-owned utility in which many experienced white managers had been too quickly pushed aside, is now investing again in new plant under a new chairman, Bobby Godsell, a veteran mining executive.
Yet rather than properly liberalising the market, the government may allow a duopoly after 2002, with the other licence going to the merged internal telephone networks of other state-owned firms, such as Eskom, the state electricity firm, and Transnet, the state transport group.
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Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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