đź”’ Boardroom Talk: KW Miller, the critic whom Eskom and its media lackeys dismissed as ‘fake’ in 2019
It is the first time KW Miller, an outspoken critic of Eskom, is prepared to go public almost three years after our paths first crossed.
It is the first time KW Miller, an outspoken critic of Eskom, is prepared to go public almost three years after our paths first crossed.
“Like the general fuel levy, the electricity price is loaded with fees that the government uses for other purposes,” reports MyBroadband.
Eskom faces myriad challenges. UCT’s Professor Anton Eberhard poses questions to the state-owned entitity’s CEO, AndrĂ© de Ruyter.
“Eskom found that there was a deviation from procedure that led to the incident and placed managers involved under precautionary suspension.”
Blaming the early closure of some South African coal-fired electricity plants and subsequent job cuts on renewables is “misdirected”, says an expert.
Falling electricity demand means South Africa no longer needs nuclear power, says Anton Eberhard, a professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
As the cost of renewable power generation is plunging, SA’s Government is pushing Eskom into an outdated agenda of “baseload” from nuclear and coal.
Chris Yelland unpacks the turmoil in the electricity sector in plain language, addressing the details and finding the light in a messy situation.