Eskom reaches R16.69 billion in year-on-year diesel savings [SOUND]

# Eskom says year-to-date diesel savings have reached R16.69-billion-rand, which is 55.7-percent less than the 29.98-billion-rand spent during the same period last year. Eskom’s Daphne Mokwena says a total of three-thousand-610-megawatts will be returned to service before the evening peak on Monday to further stabilise the grid. She says last week, average unplanned outages increased to 14-thousand-50-megawatts, showing a slight improvement of 194-megawatts compared to the same period last year: