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Hefty tariff hike could force some mines to generate their own power

engineering news | February 18, 2010 | 4:44 pm

There does not seem to be any back- ing off by Eskom on the proposal to build the enormously costly Kusile power station and on its demand for a 35%-a-year tariff hike to pay for the power station project. To...

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