Posts tagged with 'Load shedding'

 

Does Eskom Export Electricity to #SAPP When it Uses Cold Weather as Excuse to Hide Bad Maintenance & Corruption?

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Cold weather in winter is self-evident even for animals, but for Eskom it is a surprise? For decades in Apartheid, before the ANC regime was given the then first world country, Eskom supplied whatever was demanded without interruption thanks to good long-term planning and maintenance measures, but now Eskom has warned about electricity faults in KwaZulu-Natal due to cold weather! The question is, is power still quietly being sent to the African #SAPP network, when we are asked to save power, for which we paid dearly with taxes? Are we also being forced to sustain and keep the rest of Africa afloat? Even Malawi’s power provider is called “Escom!”

Again we have to suffer due to malpractices of this corrupt ANC parastatal. Will the gulf of destruction be stopped in time, before there is nothing left? Eskom said on Saturday that it was experiencing a large number of electricity faults in KZN due to cold and rainy weather, but it’s like a pantomime show, eve
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Eskom Suddenly Implements Phase 2 Rolling Blackouts, Because You Never Know When Unmaintained Machinery will Fail!

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As a result of decades worth of BBBEE, systemic corruption, wholesale plunder, bad management and lack of maintenance, the consumer is once paying the price, as Eskom has had to suddenly start load shedding again, as of Sunday, when they introduced it with phase 2, to supposedly last until Tuesday night, if everything goes according to plan.

Once again an inanimate object was blamed, this time it’s apparently the Tutuka station which had to have repairs to three generating units that failed, and another unit at the Majuba power station also failed, causing it to be stopped for repairs. As a result there is about 6,000 MW  lost over 24 hours, the spokesman from the embattled, bankrupt, national power supplier, Eskom, said.

This is once again a case of unexpected breakage that caused them to be unable to deliver the required power demand, requiring blackouts. However, as some of us know, if you do not maintain something, there is indeed no warning as to when it wi
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Black Township Protesting Power Cuts, Blocks Eskom From Inspecting Sub Station, After Racist “Gangster” Mayor Implements Extra Load Shedding on Top of Eskom’s!

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Gangsterism and cutting off your nose to spite your face, seems to be a recurring theme in #TheAfricanWay: Amsterdam in Mpumalanga has instituted its own internal electricity revolving power cuts, of 5 hours per day, and the Mayor refuses to speak English at community feedback meetings.

The Mkhondo (Piet Retief) municipality serving Amsterdam in Mpumalanga has now also instituted “internal” load shedding on top of Eskom’s own load shedding. The community is in uproar over an additional 5 hours per day load shedding, on top of the scheduled Eskom load shedding. Giel Coetzer, a businessman in town says his business is at a standstill and everyone’s food and meat is rotting in their fridges. The local mayor, Vusi Motha, was supposed to address a multiracial meeting of both black and white residents last week, but he and other officials arrived an hour and a half late. He then acted in a very racist way by insisting to speak only in Zulu although he knew that not everyo
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Eskom’s #RollingBlackouts Schedule Collapses into Chaos Leaving Traffic Lights Dead in Rush Hour Despite Promises!

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Eskom’s rolling blackout load shedding system, and its published schedules, have completely collapsed, causing so much chaos that no one is sure anymore when load shedding will be applied in a particular area, further exacerbating the energy crisis. Yet still it tries to pretend it is business as usual…

The embattled power supplier is currently enforcing its Phase 2 program of rolling power cuts nationwide, and had announced with great fanfare that city traffic will be “assisted” at peak times, by not applying power cuts from 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning, and then again from 16:00 in the afternoon to 18:00 to ensure that “dead” traffic lights do not allow traffic jams.

It worked one morning, and then not again, which made workers, industrialists, motorists businessman and even housewives hot under he collar.

Meanwhile, complaints are pouring in that Eskom’s “WhatsAPP” schedule differs from its schedule on the webpages, and no one knows what is actually sc
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Should Electricity Users Pay Eskom Direct? Eskom Losing a BILLION a Month Because Corrupt Municipal Councilors Steal User’s Electricity Payments!

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Due to the to the default on forwarding payments by municipalities, Eskom is moving further into the red every month at a staggering rate of almost R1 BILLION every month! However, apart from SOWETO where users refuse to pay, most users do pay, but their payments get intercepted by corrupt Municipalities where the money is taken and fraudulently spent on luxuries and personal expenses of councilors.

According to the latest record, the debt burden from municipalities is more than R24 BILLION at Eskom, the large majority of it from SOWETO, which is a clear reason why the entity went bankrupt. The interest due on that must be phenomenal, if that is one could expect it to ever be paid. Instead the banksters get rich on interest by lending Eskom money.

But economic advisers say Eskom is partly responsible for the situation, because if it had applied proper credit control, at most one month’s electricity bill would have been outstanding for each municipality.

Experts also say
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Poor South African’s Suffer #RollingBlackouts, Yet Government Officials & Black Elites Buy Lamborghini Aventador’s!

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#TheAfricanWay means “it is my turn to feast at the table and stuff everyone else“. This is clearly shown when Former Eskom Chairperson, Jabu Mabuza’s niece received her new Lamborghini Aventador, price range of Avendators is around R 9.6-million.

This same niece was awarded an irregular tender worth R600 Million…

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The wholesale ransacking of the country by gangsters continues unabated…

See also: #Blackprivilege! SOWETO RESIDENTS’ ELECTRICITY BILL SURPASSES R18 BILLION – So cut their damn electricity! Why must the
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Bankrupt power supplier is struggling to maintain electricity grid and diesel generator units are used to prevent #rollingblackouts

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Eskom has now gone so far as to use its emergency reserves in an effort to evade load shedding.

The diesel generator units have been used to prevent the burning of candles, but the diesel fuel bill is already more than 50% over the entity’s allowable diesel consumption according to its budget.

Workers claim they worked hard on Wednesday night to pump water so the entity on Thursday could avoid shedding.

Observers believe these are probably the first signs of a new breeze blowing through Eskom, as no one has taken much responsibility to date on whether to light the candles and when it’s going to change.

Last year’s load shedding cost Amcor about R740m, directly affecting the net profit to be shown at the end of a financial year.

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Bankrupt Eskom holds ANC regime hostage with ongoing #RollingBlackOuts

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It is not only the ANC’s president who lied to foreign countries and in parliament about SA’s condition but also sustained on another lie.

Eskom said he would ensure that no load shedding will be applied before January 13, and then the ANC’s Cyril Ramaphosa believed the lie and went on to sell the lying story to the whole of South Africa.

On January 5, #RollingBlackOuts shook the country with Phase 2 that lasted until 5am this morning.

This is because the poor workmanship at Medupi power station had to be blamed again for a conveyor belt breaking.

The fact that Koeberg had already supplied only 50% of its capacity throughout December was only announced on January 4.

Experts have told Die Vryburger it is becoming clearer that Eskom is holding the ANC government hostage because they want to pay performance bonuses of R1.5bn amid their bankruptcy.

Power consumers say that the only performance Eskom is rendering is to anger  its consumers.

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SA’s expected economic growth is adjusted to 0.9% for 2020 – ANC regime is responsible for SA being in such a mess

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The World Bank has just adjusted South Africa’s projected economic growth to 0.9% for 2020 amid the uncertainty surrounding Eskom and load shedding. The 1.3% growth that the World Bank initially predicted for 2019 has now also been adjusted to 0.4%.

In spite of these realities, the ANC clings to the ideology that got us into this troubled position. President Ramaphosa explains what their approach to state-owned companies, so-called strategic assets, will remain:

“As we do this, we are clear that the state will retain ownership of all those state-owned enterprises that are strategic. This is so that these entities are able to perform the crucial economic and developmental functions that the market would not own be able to perform. ”

The government certainly does not intend to relinquish comprehensive state control and trust the free market. In the end, they placed SAA with terrible objection in business rescue – largely thanks to the continued pressure that Sol
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Hello darkness my old Friend! Brace for more Stage 6 load-shedding as Eskom breakdowns rise

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Stage 6 load-shedding, which has happened only once before, looks set to become a far more common occurrence as Eskom’s plant breakdowns remain at dangerously high levels.

Stage 6 means 6,000MW are dropped from the grid to avoid the system becoming unstable. In Gauteng, where load-shedding intervals last four hours, Eskom customers could be without electricity for an average of 10 hours a day.

Over the weekend, Eskom went to Stage 2 load-shedding, dropping 2,000MW from the grid. But had demand been at normal levels with everyone back at work, it would have been necessary to move to Stage 6 on Saturday and Sunday.

Demand over the holiday period is about 4,000MW lower than normal. Chris Yelland, who is MD at EE Business Intelligence, which tracks demand and Eskom plant performance, says that in the last week of January 2018 electricity demand was at 28,864MW. In the last week of December demand had dropped as low as 25,294MW.

Eskom says plant breakdowns mus
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