etienne_marais
Honorary Master
At stage 42 you get to know the meaning of life.
Can you go CCGT please rather.We need more coal and OCGT power stations. Renewables CANNOT meet baseload demand as they are nowhere near reliable enough. We abandoned our Nuclear modular pebble bed reactors which would have been affordable, so Coal and Gas are our only options.
Just speak the truth andre an why eskom get paid so alot but we hv loadshedding .makes no senseEskom CEO warns of stage 15 load-shedding
Unless South Africa aggressively invests in renewable energy and relaxes air quality standards, Eskom’s models show it might need to implement stage 15 load-shedding.
This was the warning from Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, who spoke at the Africa Renewables Investment Summit in Cape Town, News24 reported.
I keep on being reminded that De Ruiter was approved by the ANC to lead Eskom.
Even though he was way down on the list, he must have given them what they asked for. Thus a commitment to tow their line and not make huge waves.
For that reason alone he is just a mouthpiece of the ANC. A puppet with their hand up his backside.
What has he done in 2.5 years to improve the power generation capacity at Eskom?
So, a team somewhere in Eskom (de Ruiter is not an auditor or investigator) found a couple of corrupt officials.
Whoop dee doo. There are a 1000 more possibly.
So what has he DONE to improve compliance in the company, to motivate those staff that want to do better?
We all know he does not directly manage the power stations, just like he doesn't personally look for crooks in Eskom. So why is he praised for the latter as a good leader, but given a pass for the former?
What tangible effect have we seen of improvements in the reliability of stations? Surely as a CEO he should be able to get his management team to put measures (checks and balances and operating procedures) in place to figure out where the problems are and how to tackle them.
The result of that would have been improvement in stability.
Instead, what we actually see is more and more load-shedding. Whatever the reasons, he has failed in his duty as CEO. Him making statements about Stage 15 drips of incompetence and being "out of touch with his consumers" and consequently in my view he does not deserve to be CEO.
It reeks of fear mongering so that they get their 32% increase - and that would probably give him also a nice fat bonus to keep his house off the grid or even to get a nice nest egg somewhere.
The economy will collapse totally, whether from load shedding or from extremely high tarriifs.
Here is the problem. I know someone who works at Eskom in a fairly high position. He works in a department that procures consumables. He needs to make sure everything is done right. From purchasing to getting the items to where they need to go. He says it is like pissing into the wind. Trying to deal with a lot of the employees is like dealing with juvenile delinquents. A lot of cadres and him being from Venda he meets a lot of resistance. Try disciplining any of these tonsils and he gets threatened. Report the situation to higher ups and the same result.
The cadres are embedded and want to be left alone to steal and pillage Eskom in peace.
...and what's the point of the post above? What exactly are you getting too?Just speak the truth andre an why eskom get paid so alot but we hv loadshedding .makes no sense
See there is absolutely nothing wrong with Eskom. And the evidence and answers lie in the fact that they supply power to seven countries from the same power generation units,
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Eswatini
Namibia
Botswana
Mozambique
Zambia
Now let's ask the question, if eskom really has power generation problems, why aren't these seven countries sitting with loadshedding like us? Remember, they also get power from Eskom, exactly the same power generation units as us. So, if Eskom really has problems then these seven countries must also suffer from load shedding like we do every day, and they don't even know load shedding. Ask people who live there if they get loadshedding. They will answer you, not at all. They also get the power cheaper than us.
Loadshedding is linked to money. Every time your power is turned on, electrical devices draw 3 times the full load current, this is called a "peak." For example, you draw 60 amps at full load but for a fraction of a second when the power is turned on under load, you draw 180 amps. So every time the power is switched on you draw 3x the full load current and your bill is determined from "peak" to "peak". So let's say you pay R1 an amp, so R60, but because they use the "peak" you pay R180. So your power consumption is less but your unit you use now costs you more. In other words you get less power but now pay more for it. Go to work 2 hours x 3 a day. 180 hours a month of less power consumption, but you pay exactly the same as if you had no power interruptions. So if you pay R1200 a month for 720 hours of use, you still pay R1200 for 540 hours of power consumption and sometimes more. "Less is more". Just go and test the fact, you will quickly realize that Eskom and the ANC are lying and deceiving us. And the ANC controls Eskom, Eskom only executes orders because it is state-owned...
You think places like Zim don't get loadshedding?Just speak the truth andre an why eskom get paid so alot but we hv loadshedding .makes no sense
See there is absolutely nothing wrong with Eskom. And the evidence and answers lie in the fact that they supply power to seven countries from the same power generation units,
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Eswatini
Namibia
Botswana
Mozambique
Zambia
Now let's ask the question, if eskom really has power generation problems, why aren't these seven countries sitting with loadshedding like us?
...and Botswana is selling excess capacity THEY generate back to Eskom.You think places like Zim don't get loadshedding?
Oh boy have I got news for you.
Yup, I also agree, how much could a CEO really do with eskom's debt level, fleet of old and poorly maintained plants, bunch of non-paying customers, he did manage to reduce eskom's debt which was a pretty good achievement, but that's only if he did not manage this feat by cutting down maintenance budget.Tell us what he should do under the current market conditions?
Since you seem to have the answers, I am quite sure you can easily tell us how a company that is technically bankrupt can improve power generation capabilities without access to the required capital, or any of the skills required?
The solution lies in government's hands. Eskom is dead in the water. Seems like people are slow in realizing this.
LOL, MyBB called out for a clickbaity headline? Well, I never...
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De Ruyter clarifies Stage 15 report: 'Clickbait engineered by a journalist'
'It's been a rough ride.' Eskom CEO André de Ruyter puts his reference to Stage 15 power cuts into context and gives an update on the state of the national grid.ewn.co.za