Article: Dramatically reduce electricity usage to avoid blackouts - Eskom

Nicodeamus said:
Is there any reason why Eskom should not be privitized?
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Seems they are scared of privitisation failures to the North

So far investors have been limited by regulatory hurdles, but Gigaba said his ministry was developing a framework for how they should be involved in the sector, although he added that South Africa would proceed carefully.

“On the continent private sector participation has been dismal ‒ we have to be cautious in moving forward,” he said.
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http://www.esi-africa.com/Eskom/will/not/be/privatised
 
The sad thing is I have very close family members working for various power stations.

They are grafting plenty of extra hours because of the current crisis while their managers and the top brass are riding the gravy train on their fat asses.

To give you an idea. My sister has not been at home before 21h00 for the past 3 weeks. She starts at 05h00.

Purely because her colleagues(read affirmative action) are to slapgat to do their work. She is doing their work and hers simply because it needs to be done and she cannot stand by and watch the power station fall apart.

And it is like that at all departments, all stations and every level. You have a few hard working proud people doing all the work and the rest of the pigs just lays back in their office chairs.
 
Why should we, the middle class always have to take the brunt of load shedding?

We reduce our consumption dramatically, but corporates and municipalities don't do their bit to save electricity.

Just take a look at this night photo of Cape Town taken recently and notice all the lights left on in all the offices of the SA biggest companies all night, when nobody is working in them.

Why does the harbour need all that excessive power-hungry flood lighting?
Why can't the municipality pull out the globes in every 2nd street light along the main roads? It will still be bright enough.

Why isn't government clamping down on excessive and wasteful corporate electricity usage?

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Can someone from Eskom or the government explain this to me?
 
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We already have shaved off excess power usage at our house.

Now they tell us that we have to cut yet more???? HUH??? :wtf:

Go talk to the rich buggers who got aircons and the such, they should be the ones cutting their power consumption, not us!!! :mad:
 
kingdong said:
Why should we, the middle class always have to take the brunt of load shedding?

We reduce our consumption dramatically, but corporates and municipalities don't do their bit to save electricity.

Just take a look at this night photo of Cape Town taken recently and notice all the lights left on n all the corporate offices all night, when nobody is working there. Why does the harbour need all that excessive flood power-hungry lighting? Why can't the municipality pull out the globes in every 2nd street lighting along the main roads. It will still be bright enough? Why isn't government clamping down on excessive and wasteful corporate electricity usage?

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Can someone explain this to me?
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It's called "my electricity penis is bigger than yours, and I don't care, the ratespayer will pay for this all".
 
kingdong said:
Why should we, the middle class always have to take the brunt of load shedding?

We reduce our consumption dramatically, but corporates and municipalities don't do their bit to save electricity.

Just take a look at this night photo of Cape Town taken recently and notice all the lights left on in all the offices of the SA biggest companies all night, when nobody is working in them.

Why does the harbour need all that excessive power-hungry flood lighting?
Why can't the municipality pull out the globes in every 2nd street light along the main roads? It will still be bright enough.

Why isn't government clamping down on excessive and wasteful corporate electricity usage?

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Can someone from Eskom or the government explain this to me?
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I fully agree on the office blocks aspect.. they need to conserve power because they are wasting..

but the flood lights at the Harbour are a necessity... do you think the harbour stops working when the sun goes down?.. its a 24 hour operation so needs the lights to keep operating.
 
A lot of those buildings are hotels and I would guess a number of car showrooms etc keep lights on for security reasons.

That said, I doubt that should the CBD office blocks turn off everything it would make much of a dent in the consumption - compared to that used by industry.
 
The biggest loads are in the morning when everyone wakes up and in the evening when everyone is cooking. The power demands could be easily solved if both the education and work sector introduced varied start/finish times.
 
kingdong said:
This is rich coming from a company that grew revenue by R63.9-billion and made a tidy R12.8-billion profit in the last quarter of 2011. [1] The same company that upped it's executive member's salaries by a whopping 109% in 2011. [2]

And now that it is time for another electricity price hike, they going to stage blackouts 'load shed' again to strike fear into us and screw us out of pocket even more.

Eskom isn't parastatal, it's a PARASITE! ... and it's killing our country's growth!

References:

1. http://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-23-e...-up-by-r639bn/
2. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Salarie...ubled-20110627
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Unfortunately the profit is barely enough to cover the interest payments. By 2021 Eskom would be paying R45 billion in interest.
 
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Singularity1 said:
Unfortunately the profit is barely enough to cover the interest payments. By 2021 Eskom would be paying R45 billion in interest.
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Not my problem.

They should have done their planning.

Maybe they should sell Eskom off to the highest bidder and privatize it thusly? Thus getting rid of the debt, and introducing some competition into the market...
 
The_Librarian said:
Not my problem.

They should have done their planning.

Maybe they should sell Eskom off to the highest bidder and privatize it thusly? Thus getting rid of the debt, and introducing some competition into the market...
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Think the poop the globabl financial system is in would hinder any sort of investments on that scale, certainly when you look at how long the ROI is.
 
Don't have anything left to turn off apart from the fridge. Honestly the bosses of Eskom take incompetence to new depths
 
Eskom can GTFO. We are sick of their crap. We did our part years ago.
My household electricity usage is already at the bare minimum and I am tired of being told it's my fault when they are the ones who screwed up.
Now I won't give them the time of day.
They can go and die in a fire.
 
It's very tight.

Trends in the supply and demand of power in South Africa are as follows:

Today (Monday 30 January): The capacity available to meet this evening’s peak demand is 34 097 MW while demand is forecast at 31 386 MW. Current planned maintenance stands at 3 486 MW. Unplanned outages are 5 411 MW.
Yesterday (Sunday 29 January): Peak demand of 28 900 MW met by available capacity of 30 958 MW.
Saturday (28 January): Peak demand of 29 016 MW met by available capacity of 32 072 MW.
Friday (27 January): Peak demand of 29 793 MW met by available capacity of 32 297 MW.
Thursday (26 January): Peak demand of 30 857 MW met by available capacity of 33 373 MW.
Peak demand for the rest of this week is forecast at: 31 258 MW on Tuesday, 31 139 MW on Wednesday, 31 299 MW on Thursday, 30 849 MW on Friday, 29 501 MW on Saturday and 29 104 MW on Sunday.

Eskom continues to make progress with its programme of planned maintenance but the system remains tight.

We urge all South Africans to partner with us to keep the lights on and save 10% of their electricity usage. This will make it significantly easier to manage the power system during this challenging time, while also enabling us to do planned maintenance to ensure the reliability of our plant. For tips on how to trim 10% off your consumption, visit http://www.eskomidm.co.za/residential
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Bulletins.
 
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it burns my arse when we are reminded to cut our use even more when i drive home & see places like Canal Walk shopping center & SABC on beach road are lit up like lighthouses at 2 in the morning but are devoid of human life inside
 
I'm surprised there hasn't been a hacker out there who has cracked the prepaid electricity algorithm and created a key generator to generate 16-digit electricity token codes for pre-paid electricity meters yet.

With such a keygen this person could send a copy to Eskom HQ, informing them it will be released to the public through viral means if they dont get their act together. LOL
 
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