Déjà vu …? Moneyweb Eskom LoadShedding
Just more than a day after Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa was telling everyone who would listen that Eskom would handle the increased demand caused by a brutal cold front, the country was plunged back into Stage 4 load shedding at very short notice at 1pm on Monday. According to News24, he said last Sunday: “Even if demand were to surge to the worst-case scenario, if these machines were performing at the rate at which we were expecting them to, we shouldn’t have a problem.
The data shows it threw all its emergency reserves and options at the problem on Monday, hoping it would somehow be able to bring back coal units for Tuesday’s peak. This did not happen. Instead, it burnt as much diesel as it was capable of constantly throughout Monday and Tuesday. By Wednesday, it had exhausted about a third of that generation capacity. The OCGTs only contributed around 1 300MW throughout the day. By Friday, it was all but out of diesel supply.
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