Article: Save energy to avoid blackouts

South Africans must save electricity as the country cannot afford to go back to a situation where load shedding is necessary like in 2008, says Eskom Board Chairperson Zola Tsotsi.

"The risk for load shedding is very low, in fact I have said load shedding is not in my vocabulary but if we don't save energy as we should anything is possible and we don't want to go there," Tsotsi told SAnews on Saturday.
 
Regardless of how much us residential consumers save, we WILL be forced to endure rolling blackouts in the coming months/years due to ESKOM's incompetence and lack of forward planning.
 
Authorities say illegal connections cost the country R4.4 billion per annum.
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Deal with that before you tell paying clients to use less.

And then turn off the mega-users in a crisis and stop bugging the little guy.
 
By saving electricity you are helping yourselves because it means more money in your pocket," Magwanishe said.
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Hogwash, because if the regular paying citizen saves more electricity the cost per unit has to increase to make up for the financial shortfall.

The illegals won't change, that's for certain.
 
I think if I had the skills, I'd wire my house up for free, like in the luxion...
 
If ESKOM/Govt clear up the law on backfeeding and micro power generators then the problem wont be as bad. South Africas golden asset is the sun, and letting people put solar panels on their roof and feeding surplus energy back on to the grid should help a ton.

Using backfeeding, eskom doesnt pay for any of the maintainance, they just credit your electricity account for the amount of energy you generate.
 
Ricard said:
If ESKOM/Govt clear up the law on backfeeding and micro power generators then the problem wont be as bad. South Africas golden asset is the sun, and letting people put solar panels on their roof and feeding surplus energy back on to the grid should help a ton.

Using backfeeding, eskom doesnt pay for any of the maintainance, they just credit your electricity account for the amount of energy you generate.
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Well Eskom needs to upgrade the distribution to a smart grid to accommodate that I think.i don't think they can measure reverse energy, not to mention power factor correction.
 
I'm tired of listening to these thieves mouth off and tell us what to do and how to live our lives.:mad:
 
Garyvdh said:
I'm tired of listening to these thieves mouth off and tell us what to do and how to live our lives.:mad:
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I agree but in the decency of being neighborly, if not running my underfloor heating, heating elements and jacuzzi pump when the supply burden is too high means there being less chance of a blackout I would. It will only turn around when the new power stations are commissioned.
 
If everyone saved they would still tell us to save! Screw you Eskom.

Goes to turn on the heater and TV and all the lights.
 
Tell people to save electricity -> threaten with blackouts -> implement blackouts -> increase electricity price -> steal profits -> repeat.
 
2012 said:
Tell people to save electricity -> threaten with blackouts -> implement blackouts -> increase electricity price -> steal profits -> repeat.
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Correct but don't forget to apply salary increases / R36m staff parties due to the fantastic performance reviews they must be using.
 
F*** you Eskum, tell my municipality to stop wasting electricity, for 4 days now my street lights have been burning 24 hours straight, It does not help that they don't answer their phones either. This nonsense of us the consumer "must" save electricity is BS, I pay for what I use and therefore save as much as I can already, me switching off my lights isn't going to save your sh**y grid, stop stealing the money we pay and start fixing the grid you as*h**es.
 
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