South Africa’s state-owned power utility has announced level 6 power cuts.
Eskom has announced that load-shedding will move to stage 6 at 21:00 on Tuesday, 10 January 2023.
“Stage 6 nightly load-shedding will then be implemented at 16:00–05:00 until further notice. Stage 4 load-shedding will be implemented at 05:00 – 16:00 daily until further notice,” Eskom said. They explain that two conditions must be present for this — there must be sulphur and a low concentration of oxygen, which lets the sulphur react with iron rather than being oxidised.High sulphur content in the coal supplied to power plants is the root cause of the problem, but generally, lower-sulphur coal comes at a higher price.
However, this would result in increased emissions of nitrogen-oxide compounds, which have a range of adverse health effects and much higher global warming potential than CO2.
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