OPINION: Rolling blackouts are not under control and generation capacity has not improved despite Electricity Minister KgosientshoRamokgopa singing praises. 💡 Loadshedding Eskom Read more here ⬇️
Rolling blackouts are not under control and generation capacity has not improved. In his update last Sunday, he said Eskom is using the open-cycle gas turbines less this winter because power generation is doing so well.
Now we hear that just in June, Eskom burned diesel to the value of R1.122 billion just in the first 11 days of July after burning through R1.495 billion in June to keep up appearances for the lie that the grid has stabilised, according to Netwerk24. Was this to show how well they could do without Andre de Ruyter? Well, this one came back to bite him.
It is clear that Eskom’s budget for diesel to run the turbines will not last the entire year. There will be nothing left to keep rolling blackouts at bay when summer comes. When farmers will have to forgo running their pivots to irrigate their lands as they will not be able to depend so much on rain as we also face an El Niño summer with possibly less rain in the summer rainfall areas.
Of all the things we would expect of our minister of electricity to be, honesty would be top of the list.","category_class":"child-of-business","time_ago":"1 day ago","premium":false,"gallery":false,"excerpt":"Load shedding has spawned massive investment in solar and battery systems.
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