AMEU warns of unseen load-shedding disaster in the making

[grok]

Learned something today, an organisation that is not in the news all the time, because it deals with infrastructure and not politics:
Association for Municipal Electricity Utilities (AMEU)

Makes you wonder why they only piping up now, hasn't Eskom been a disaster in the making for decades already?

And I'm speaking infrastructurally not politically, its been known for years that the way Eskom runs the grid is well, like Zuma ran the country.. into the ground.

 

["D"]

current and instaneous

You need a tan.

 

[OhYeah84]

Association for Municipal Electricity Utilities <-- another expert association rises from nowhere.

 

[dualmeister]

It’s dangerous work, and the teams have to rest.

One hour on and 3 hours rest?

 

[ConfusedR]

"It’s dangerous work, and the teams have to rest."

But they can protest and riot for days when they need a nappy change.

 

[Oldfut]

Makes you wonder why they only piping up now, hasn't Eskom been a disaster in the making for decades already?

And I'm speaking infrastructurally not politically, its been known for years that the way Eskom runs the grid is well, like Zuma ran the country.. into the ground.

From my interaction with electrical engineers from a large municipality is that they had somewhat tunnel vision; believing Eskom to be so wonderful and efficient that it could generate electricity at impossible costs; until it couldn't. Then they focussed on their responsibilities, metering, switchgear, transformers, load shedding and their grid; generation didn't even occur to them; electricity came from Eskom. Finally the penny has more or less dropped but it's too late, they passed up many, many opportunities for generation of one sort or another, the capacity has gone, money, she is stolen (by the ANC, who else).