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Eskom Chief Operations Officer Jan Oberholzer says the power utility has spent at least R12 billion over the past year on diesel in order to run its open cycle gas turbines (OCGTs). The OCGTs are the power utility’s emergency generation units which have had to be used extensively during the past year due to the ... Read more