2010 FIFA World Cup™: Eskom made a significant contribution to the successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ – refer to the profile section.
Back2Basics project: Eskom has implemented a “Back2Basics” programme across all business units to enable effective decision making and improve operational performance by simplifying, standardising and optimising processes and systems – refer to the Finance and Group Capital section for progress on this initiative.
Corporate review: This project entails analysing corporate functions, benchmarking this against similar institutions and identifying possibilities for rationalisation within existing operations. This project aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of corporate functions. This is ongoing as part of Eskom’s strategic review.
Reputation management: The objective is to stem the flow of negative media coverage in the short term and recover and turn around Eskom’s image and reputation in the long term, while at the same time gearing Eskom’s corporate communication strategy – refer to the Corporate Affairs section for positive progress made.
Generation Business: Over the past year the aim was to add new capacity, manage existing plant, strive for cost efficiencies, focus on operational excellence and safety – refer to the Group Capital and Generation Business sections respectively set out performance on these focus areas.
Customer Network Business: The objective was to integrate demand management across Eskom, improve revenue management, sign power purchase agreements, and facilitate the national integrated resource plan – refer to the Customer Network Business section.
Participation in subcommittee of Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Energy: Government established the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Energy to address the key challenges in the electricity industry and to facilitate progress towards an optimal regulatory and policy environment – one that is credible, predictable, legitimate and transparent. Eskom is providing input into this important process – refer to the Regulatory and Legal Framework section which sets out the status quo on this initiative.
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