BREAKING | Botswana offers off-peak electricity to supplement Eskom supply

[epah]

you'd need some pretty big batteries.

Well they better start building them now.

 

[Tman*]

From supplying 70% of the electricity to the African continent to begging for electricity from a country with a GDP 200 smaller than SA.

Embarrassing to say the least

 

[skimread]

So, we have become just another "Zimbabwe" having to rely on Botswana and Zambia for electricity....

Botswana can't afford to sell at the low rate Zim buys electricity and Zim also pays very irregularly.

Zim will continue buying from South Africa while we have loadshedding.

 

[Lupus]

From supplying 70% of the electricity to the African continent to begging for electricity from a country with a GDP 200 smaller than SA.

Embarrassing to say the least View attachment 1354972

Uhmm that wouldn't be correct, but also remember

Home | Eskom Uganda Limited

EUL is a subsidiary company of Eskom Enterprises SOC Limited South Africa, the investment arm of Eskom Holdings SOC Limited, which has more than 97 years heritage as the leading electricity utility in Africa and is headquartered in Johannesburg South Africa.

www.eskom.co.ug

https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/tag/eskom/

They still do have a presence in other African countries running plants there, Eskom didn't generate Africa's power from South Africa, I mean the transmission lines across Africa would be killer.

 

[skimread]

From supplying 70% of the electricity to the African continent to begging for electricity from a country with a GDP 200 smaller than SA.

Embarrassing to say the least View attachment 1354972

But Botswana would take vandalism and corruption of its key infrastructure seriously.

Botswana doesn't have a faction trying to get rid of their president. Their president would also not try to ignore the actions of a faction to avoid fractioning his party.

 

[The Darkness]

How dismally embarrassing for South Africa. I'm sick of us being the laughing stock. The ANC have brought our country into a disgraceful position.

 

[konfab]

Why cant electricity be stored? Havent they heard of batteries. But i know nothing in anycase.

Physics mostly. Closest thing you can get to storing electricity is to store it in the electric field of a capacitor.

What you are actually likely doing is talking about energy storage. Remember, all electricity is, is a way to take energy from one place and put it somewhere else. Which is why talking about storing it isn't very correct. A coal power station takes a portion of the energy released when coal is burned and turns it into electricity via a turbine, that energy is then sent via a transmission line to your computer where it uses the energy to do some useful work.

 

[TheChamp]

Does Eskom not export to Estawini, Zimbabwe and Mozambique ? Surely it is easier to cancel those contracts or are the penalties worse than importing ?

Yes, some are firm contracts so you don't just wake up in a bad mood and cancel them. But some of it is non firm so they can reduce or completely stop that when we are in trouble.

Here is a nice article.

Is Eskom having trouble with the neighbours? -

Now that load shedding will be with us for the foreseeable future, a “solution” to the problem that is often proposed is that Eskom should simply stop selling electricity to South Africa’s neighbouring countries. The problem apparently lies with the neighbours. The idea is that there would be...

solidariteit-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org

Below is an outline of the maximum fixed exports to the respective neighbouring countries:

Mozambique: 950 MW
Lesotho: 90 MW
Swaziland: 250 MW
Namibia: 440 MW
Botswana: 100 MW

When Eskom experiences an emergency shortage of power, all sales to Namibia (440 MW) and Botswana (100 MW) are immediately suspended in full. Furthermore, the supply of electricity to the other neighbouring countries is immediately decreased by 10%, releasing an additional 129 MW. If load shedding still has to be implemented in South Africa after all these measures have been applied, Swaziland and Lesotho’s power is further decreased by approximately 10%, thereby releasing additional 34 MW.

When 440 MW is withdrawn from Namibia, 100 MW from Botswana and 163 MW from the other neighbouring countries, the maximum power that Eskom supplies to neighbouring countries during a shortage in South Africa is just 1 127 MW. Moreover, Eskom can completely suspend the provision of 950 MW to the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique several times a month if necessary, thereby limiting total exports during load shedding in South Africa to approximately 272 MW. This 272 MW to 1 127 MW is considerably less than the maximum of fixed contract imports of 1 648 MW.

 

[dualmeister]

Finally come to this.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

How dismally embarrassing for South Africa. I'm sick of us being the laughing stock. The ANC have brought our country into a disgraceful position.

maybe people enjoy it, they keep voting the stupids into power,

so obviously they are doing something right.

 

[R13...]

Finally come to this.

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They're buying it not begging.

 

[dualmeister]

They're buying it not begging.

Let me know when Botswana cuts them off for non payment.

 

[The Darkness]

maybe people enjoy it, they keep voting the stupids into power,

so obviously they are doing something right.

It’s out of fear. At election time they are emphatically told that they will lose everything and apartheid will come back. The majority’s lack of proper education cements this thinking. How far ahead we could be if people served their country with integrity and honesty.

Yet, we still have our president stashing an unanswered for US$4,000,000.00 under his mattress and noting comes of it.