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A Sunday Times report has uncovered two towns in remote areas of the Northern Cape that have never experienced loadshedding.
If the private sector got involved – who knows? South Africans will clutch to any straw at this point for solutions to the energy crisis.
Power utility Eskom has revealed that, in the event of grid collapse, South Africa would be left without electricity ‘for weeks’.
John Steenhuisen’s solution to Eskom’s myriad problems that has plunged the country into Stage 6 loadshedding is immediate expert outside help.
Eskom’s system operator does not have set loadshedding levels beyond stage 8, general manager Isabel Fick told journalists on Sunday morning.
Many of the credits that trade hands merely represent a transfer of money from one profitable enterprise to another, critics say.
Eskom is warning South Africa could have over 320 days of loadshedding in the next year in a worst-case scenario presented to Parliament.
MetroWatt and Huawei have announced a partnership to provide solar power system rentals to fight load-shedding, starting from R2,800 a month.
Many are wondering if it’s time to dust off the blueprints of Eskom’s groundbreaking Pebble Bed Modular Reactor nuclear power programme.
South Africa’s only nuclear power plant, Koeberg, has frequently been in the news in 2022, all for the wrong reasons.