Deans Leadership Guest: André de Ruyter on Financing the Global Energy Transition

André de Ruyter
Recently Retired Group Chief Executive - Eskom HoldingsAndre photo
Until February 2023, André de Ruyter was Eskom Holdings’ Group Chief Executive (GCE), overseeing an integrated electricity utility with some 40,000 employees, and annual sales of US$15 billion. Eskom provides 95% South Africa’s electricity needs and approximately 45% of the electricity used across the Africa. Under André‘s leadership, Eskom operated 30 power stations, including coal and nuclear power stations, hydro, pumped storage and gas-fired peaking power stations as well as a wind farm. Eskom has a total nominal capacity of over 44 000 MW, supported by a network consisting of almost 400 000 km of high, medium, and low-voltage lines serving over 6 million direct customers. Eskom also manages an electricity market supplied by independent power producers in a liberalizing market, a positive trend that André has strongly advocated.