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SA companies have been called upon to introduce flexitime, but Cape businesses believe it simply won’t work.
Eskom chief executive Brian Dames reported on Monday it was considering offering special rates to companies operating between 10pm and 4am.
“Between five o’clock and around 7.30 in the evening every night we use as much electricity as most of our neighbouring countries combined just in those few hours. In some cases it’s in excess of 3 000MW,” Dames said.
“We think as a country we should consider changing our working hours. We may offer companies special fees and rates to use electricity from about 10 at night to four o’clock in the morning.”
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