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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom breakdowns at lowest level in nine months

    Eskom breakdowns at lowest level in nine months Eskom reports that, on Friday, its power station breakdowns were at their lowest levels recorded in nine months. “As of 1 August 2025, unplanned outages stand at 8,525MW, the lowest level in recent history, narrowly surpassing the 8,258MW...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom aiming for 70% EAF by March 2026 — Ramokgopa

    Eskom aiming for 70% EAF by March 2026 — Ramokgopa South Africa's electricity minister says the power utility aims to improve its energy availability factor (EAF) by 10 percentage points in less than nine months, despite rising unplanned breakdowns. Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has told the...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom struggling to reduce breakdowns

    Eskom struggling to reduce breakdowns Eskom reports that, as of Friday, the weekly average breakdowns at its power stations was 13,628 MW. For nine weeks in a row, average breakdowns have exceeded the power utility’s 13,000 MW “safe” threshold. While breakdowns were lower this week, the...
  5. D

    Citipower registration of solar

    Hi All, Has anyone registered their solar with citipower? I read some big figures regarding eskom registration (20 to 50k) but for citipower some are reporting it cost them about 5k to do. How many of the people with solar here are registered? I am not entirely sure yet whether to go through...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom close to stage 2 load-shedding

    Eskom close to stage 2 load-shedding Eskom’s breakdowns averaged 15,076 MW over the last week, well above its base case of 13,000 MW for the 2025 winter period. This was revealed in an Eskom system update late on Friday, 20 June 2025, in which the power utility reported its latest performance...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Former Eskom COO chairman at emerging battery giant

    Former Eskom COO chairman at emerging battery giant The company building most of South Africa's government-funded battery energy storage systems (BESS) is chaired by former Eskom chief operating officer (COO) Jan Oberholzer. Electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa recently...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom issues tender for green hydrogen project builder

    Eskom issues tender for green hydrogen project builder Eskom has issued an invitation for companies to tender for the construction of a pilot renewable green hydrogen facility (RHF) at its Johannesburg Research, Testing and Development (RT&D) unit. The power utility said that developing...
  9. missionimpossible

    is it possible to go off grid?

    is it possible to go off grid given this announcement? I am currently being billed by ESKOM direct. Surely I can ask ESKOM to disconnect me, take my deposit and move on...
  10. frankvw

    New Eskom tariff structure

    I know this is not related to loadshedding (AFAIK) so if this is the wrong forum I apologize in advance. I just received my latest Eskom bill. With the new tariff structure coming into effect on 1 April last I expected higher charges, both for energy consumption and network capacity charge (the...
  11. D

    5kw portable system possible?

    Hi all, I'm interested in building a portable power system. Currently have this inverter and battery which is a 5kw inverter and 48v lithium battery. I was thinking of placing the battery in a server cabinet and mounting the inverter on the top of the cabinet. These are similar systems that...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's 20-fold price hike in 31 years

    Eskom's 20-fold price hike in 31 years From next month, South Africa's electricity tariffs will have increased by nearly 2,000% since the country became a democracy. While the cost of certain goods and services would have increased gradually over time due to inflation, Eskom's hikes over this...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Koeberg Unit 2 back online after second outage in days

    Koeberg Unit 2 back online after second outage in days Eskom has announced that it successfully returned Unit 2 at Koeberg nuclear power station to service on Sunday, 9 March 2025. Following its startup from 18:17 on Sunday, the unit has been incrementally ramped up to 646MW and will continue...
  14. Tech Guy SA

    Navasolar TI-3024 Trolley Inverter 3KW/2.56kwh Lithium Battery - R7 900 on Sale

    Navasolar TI-3024 Trolley Inverter 3KW/2.56kwh Lithium Battery Packaging: Boxed Warranty: 2 Year's Warranty Location: Country Wide Shipping Collection Option: Contact us as they are at multiple Warehouses. Price R12 200 (not including shipping / Shipping Insurance) EFT Pays R7 663 Link to...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom's coal power stations increasing deaths in nearby communities by 6% — SAMRC study

    Eskom's coal power stations increasing deaths in nearby communities by 6% — SAMRC study Air pollution in South Africa boosts the annual number of deaths by 6% in communities living near coal-fired power plants, a study by the South African Medical Research Council showed. The study, the first...
  16. Smokey888

    Another Solar Thread: What is your average Eskom Monthly Bill?

    For the guys that have fairly big setups IE 8KW, 12KW, 16KW systems. What is your average Eskom bill as well as what is the Solar setup you currently have? Nr of panels, size of Inverter, size of batteries?
  17. Tech Guy SA

    Runtime Calculator for Inverters and Portable Power Stations

    This is a bit of a work in progress we worked on this project in 2023 and canceled it near the end of that year (load shedding kinda died). We made it in Excel and our calculations were 99% accurate. Now have made it into the website am working on it still launched it Saturday, busy with the...
  18. Tech Guy SA

    Navasolar TI-3052 Trolley Inverter 3kw/5.12kwh Lithium Battery - R12 200 on Sale

    Hot seller Item has sold out as of end of day Friday 8th March. Navasolar TI-3052 Trolley Inverter 3kw/5.12kwh Lithium Battery (SOLD OUT) Packaging: Boxed Warranty: 2 Year's Warranty Location: Country Wide Shipping Collection Option: Cape Town Only (Arranged before hand stock is in Montague...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Koeberg Unit 2 trips

    Koeberg Unit 2 trips Eskom says that Unit 2 at its Koeberg nuclear power station near Cape Town experienced an unplanned, non-technical trip while operating at full capacity on Sunday, 2 March 2025. "Koeberg Unit 2 inadvertently tripped during the execution of work on Unit 1, which is...
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    Electricians can approve embedded generation systems — ECASA

    Electricians can approve embedded generation systems — ECASA Eskom Direct and certain municipalities are making it more expensive for households and businesses to make their grid-tied PV solar systems legally compliant than necessary, according to a major electrician representative in South...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    Stage 4 load-shedding for Monday

    Stage 4 load-shedding for Monday Eskom reduced load-shedding from stage 6 to stage 4 at 00:30 on Monday, 24 February 2025. The power utility said the reduction was possible due to the successful recovery of all five units at Majuba, two units at Camden, and one unit at Medupi since Saturday.
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