Andre de Ruyter says lower load-shedding is thanks to him, Mteto Nyati disagrees

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Eskom load-shedding war — André de Ruyter versus Mteto Nyati

Eskom chair Mteto Nyati dismissed former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter’s claims the lower load-shedding is thanks to his maintenance plan and burning billions in diesel.

De Ruyter made these claims during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday at the PSG Financial Services’ Annual Conference.
 
His maintenance plan is stupid because it only works before elections. Whose maintenance plan do we thank after elections?
 
Eskom should just privatise it's generation and retain a minority share which represents the BEE requirements. All new capacity should be a public private partnership on the same basis but with strict SLAs not only on construction but also generation at a fixed agreed rate linked to performance. Each of the privatised stations should be linked with renewable projects of at least equal generation.
 
Jan said:
Eskom load-shedding war — André de Ruyter versus Mteto Nyati

Eskom chair Mteto Nyati dismissed former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter’s claims the lower load-shedding is thanks to his maintenance plan and burning billions in diesel.

De Ruyter made these claims during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday at the PSG Financial Services’ Annual Conference.
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Thank you AdR we know you still with Eskom in spirit. AdR works in mysterious ways.
 
“The budget for diesel this year is R24 billion. That is four times what we had at our disposal.”
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Someone should have asked what his EAF was doing over the period vs his. Yes, they got allowed to burn more diesel but they aren't currently doing so. Things did get worse for a while they seem to have pulled that EAF back quite a lot. I know AdR doesn't understand the engineering technical terms so we can forgive him.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
He's not wrong, he pushed everyone to solar. Now there's no demand and therefore no LS...
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Except he's not giving that as the reason.
So, Koko has been preaching that AdR was brought in to kill off coal and drive everyone to solar. But in the same breath credits his departure with load shedding ending because Eskom went back to coal. Then the next moans that Eskom will be shutting down some coal power stations.
 
R13... said:
Except he's not giving that as the reason.
So, Koko has been preaching that AdR was brought in to kill off coal and drive everyone to solar. But in the same breath credits his departure with load shedding ending because Eskom went back to coal. Then the next moans that Eskom will be shutting down some coal power stations.
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Yeah, all but his swarm of fangirls knows that De Generuyter can't keep track of his BS. He just likes the attention that they and the media gives him...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Yeah, all but his swarm of fangirls knows that De Generuyter can't keep track of his BS. He just likes the attention that they and the media gives him...
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Yeah, he's a good showman. We all cheered for the fraud when he first got appointed and announced his ambitious plans. Only to find out it was all a scam and the likes of Gwede were right in asking him to stop playing cop and rather run Eskom.
 
Lupus said:
That doesn't really explain the EAF gains
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Lower demand allows for better maintenance and less unplanned breakdowns. If power stations aren't falling over and demand is lower, EAF will obviously increase. You know this. Don't defend this chop...
 
Lupus said:
That doesn't really explain the EAF gains
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short-term IMO, the spiral is in effect. The average citizen will have lower LS in the short-term, however once the high paying customers fully move to solar, where will Eskom get the money to pay the bloated workforce whilst the population continues to grow? Supplying power now is the easier task, but hopefully I'm wrong.
 
Lupus said:
That doesn't really explain the EAF gains
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Unfortunately EAF gains doesn't mean much until you know they are sustainable.

You can temporarily defer maintenance and "show improved EAF". Until stuff starts breaking again...
 
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