Wietze Post – Electricity supply: Wishful thinking and economic reality (Part 1)
Wietze Post expresses scepticism over the development of gas, coal, and nuclear projects due to financial challenges.
Wietze Post expresses scepticism over the development of gas, coal, and nuclear projects due to financial challenges.
Eskom’s Generation Adequacy Report for medium term paints a bleak picture for the year ahead – predicting major generation capacity shortfall.
With rising concerns of an electricity grid collapse, many businesses are preparing themselves for that very eventuality.
Geordin Hill-Lewis speaks on a wide variety of topical issues – highlighting the imminent extra electricity supply into Cape Town.
The dead hand of the government puts Eskom under pressure when it decides how it should do business, whom it should employ, and from whom it should buy.
Who ruined South Africa’s electricity supply, which was once the best in the world? Was it Eskom? The ANC? Other malign influences? Other idiocies?
With protesting and cold weather expected this week, Eskom has urged the public to reduce electricity usage, with load shedding a possibility.
A lawsuit aimed at enabling the City of Cape Town to tap more renewable energy from independent producers was initially filed in the High Court in 2017.
This second article from the interview with Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter covers the debt and financial issues facing the troubled utility.
Chris Yelland warns that it is crunch time for Necsa, which has run out of funds and can’t even pay Eskom to keep its lights on.