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Mpho Hlakudi
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A series of winter storms helped reduce electricity blackouts over the past week, allowing renewable-energy plants at the coast to boost their supply to the national grid, according to an official at South Africa's state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.
There have been "great wind-resources generation coming through in the last week," Eric Shunmagum, a generation executive at Eskom, told reporters Friday in the capital, Pretoria. "With cold fronts coming through, we see better wind resources."