Posts tagged with 'power supply'

 

Forget The SONA Circus Where Scavengers Try Legitimize Their Greed, Here’s SOFA: State Of Our Farmers Address According to TAU!

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The annual State of the Nation speech did not only turn into a circus as usual, but again, even more communism and even more Afrocentrism was the order of the day. South Africa now belongs to the vultures, and they will cackle on about it till the rooster crows! All you can be sure of, is that there will be broad indications of their new plans to plunder even more, and even more folly with regards to State Entities, and the rewriting of our history. However, if you need a little reassurance, calm your nerves by reading TAU’s State of Our Farmers Address, from an agricultural perspective.

Were it not for our farmers, all the clowns in Parliament might not have been so well (over?) fed, and the country would fast degenerate into an international humanitarian crisis, although it is already on its way there. Whilst it may not be such a good idea to produce too much food, just so the vultures can eat and breed even more, the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) SA, during
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SA’s high unemployment rates are swept in front of Eskom’s door

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Mining houses and corporate businesses are accusing Eskom for the high unemployment rates since their pathetic service delivery is causing uncertainty in the economy.

Several institutions announcing in recent weeks that they would need to start retrenchments, unemployment has increased alarmingly rapidly and even greater retrenchments are provided.

The uncertainty caused by Eskom in the supply of electricity has forced many mining houses to generate self-sufficient power, but which is far more expensive than using the national power supply.

Eskom is also accused of being directly responsible for the poor economic situation and the fact that foreign investors are not interested if power supply cannot be guaranteed in South-Africa.

Unemployment has now reached the 29% level, which is the highest in history, and employment is estimated at 52% according to figures applicable for December.

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Eskom to cut 60% of Soweto households’ power supply – Seems like #blackprivilege don’t apply in black residential areas at the expense of honest payers

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Eskom has awakened from its 25 years of corruption and has now suddenly decided to cut off Soweto’s illegal electricity consumers’ supply.

According to the latest report, Eskom has indicated that it will disconnect power from at least 60% of the 200,000 Soweto households with prepaid meters.

The reason is, according to Eskom, due to the fact that the majority of households have illegal connections, thereby stealing the power supply.

Experts say that’s one reason why regular payers have been so heavily burdened with unreasonably high rates for the past decade.

Eskom decided to take the action after the Supreme Court rejected Soweto residents’ request that Eskom be banned from cutting off power.

The media, and in particular Die Vryburger, have complained on behalf of thousands of power consumers over the past decade that Eskom allows black residential areas to steal power at the expense of honest payers.

Informed sources point out that the government ha
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Court deals Soweto residents who wants to pay a flat tarrif of R150 a month for electricity a blow by striking case off the roll

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Soweto owes R20bn to power provider Eskom, but residents of the township only want to pay R150 a month for their power. Mpho Sesedinyane, ANC councilor and chair of the South African National Civic Organization (Sanco) in Soweto, feels that R150 is a fair amount and that, given the state of the economy, the residents can only afford to pay this much a month for power.

However, Eskom rejected the proposal of a fixed power tariff of R150 per month for electricity. Eskom spokesperson Reneilwe Semenya said this proposal by community leaders in Soweto was unrealistic and residents had to pay for what they consumed. He also referred to the Johannesburg High Court which on Tuesday rejected an application to restore power supply to Soweto and allow residents to pay a flat rate for power.

Soweto owes R20 billion of the R420 billion owed to the Johannesburg metro power supplier. Semenya believes that if a fixed power tariff is set, it will certainly give rise to a culture
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Power grid remains under pressure, possibility of load shedding not eliminated

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The electricity network remains under pressure and, according to Eskom, there is still the possibility of load shedding for today and the rest of the week, but will only be applied if absolutely necessary.

According to Eskom, unplanned interruptions at 22:00 on Sunday were slightly less than 10,000 MW and good progress was made over the weekend to supplement diesel reserves for the open-cycle gas turbines and water levels with the pump storage schemes.

The power provider said the power grid is still being monitored hourly at its emergency response control center and that the situation at its generation plants is unpredictable.

“Eskom wants to remind its customers that any unexpected changes such as additional interruptions or the unavailability of diesel for the gas turbines or declining water levels at the pump storage schemes could lead to short-term power short notice.”

Meanwhile, another generation unit at the Kusile power station was synchronized for t
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#RollingBlackouts are back due to a shortage of power generation at Eskom power stations contributed by lack of skill

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Eskom announced early on Wednesday that phase 2 load shedding will be activated from 09:00 to 23:00. The severe power constraints are apparently caused by a broken coal conveyor belt at the Medupi power station. This reduced the station’s power supply by half. The struggling power supplier said in a brief statement that due to a lack of generating capacity, he was forced to take this step.

According to Eskom, they have been extensively using the help of pump generators and open cycle gas turbines since Saturday to make up for the electricity shortage, but cannot sustain due to the decline in dam and diesel levels. In addition, five generating units are not available due to boiler tube leaks. As a result, the state entity then had to implement Phase 2 Load shedding from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm which dumps 2000 MW of power on a rotational basis to prevent a total collapse in the power grid. Phase 1 is the ‘lightest’ load shedding schedule, while up to 4,000 MW of power ca
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