Andre De Ruyter

Group Chief Executive Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd

André de Ruyter is currently the Eskom Holdings Group Chief Executive (overseeing a 100 State owned company of over 40 000 employees, responsible for providing over 95 South Africa’s electricity needs and approximately 45 of the electricity used across the Africa Under André’s leadership, Eskom operates 30 power stations, including base load coal and nuclear power stations, hydro, pumped storage and gas fired peaking power stations as well as a self dispatching 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 and underground cables serving over 6 000 000 direct customers