Eskom battling against private power push

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Eskom battling against private power push

Eskom appears determined to defend its monopoly and return South Africa to a scenario where the state-owned power utility is the sole electricity supplier.

That is the view of EE Business Intelligence head and energy expert Chris Yelland and Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt, who recently spoke to Sunday newspaper Rapport regarding Eskom's opposition to the issuing of new electricity trading licences to four private companies.

 

[agentrfr]

No.

 

[leon.davibe]

Whenever you can produce bulk you will always be able to produce cheaper than any small producer

That is exactly why solar was never really viable in SA

Even though we have awesome climate for it

Because the cost vs just buying cheap reliable energy from escom always tilted towards uneconomical

So if eskom changed with the times , kept running a tight ship it would not be the case

VIVA ANC/CADRE DEPLOYMENT with heaps of corruption

(Not saying corruption did not exist before anc , the scale matters )

 

[Flanders]

Eskom puts the 'kom' in kommie bastads.

 

[DeSLAM]

Pray tell, how is 17 years of rolling blackouts not treason? Simply to then hang on to the monopoly at any price to the SA consumer (+500% product price increase besides costing the economy ZAR 1 Billion a day per stage in losses *), just so that they can stay the monopoly and charge a hell of a lot more for their product while ZAR billions is simply "missing" (never recovered from those who stole it) and the infrastructure not maintained properly. And the SOE absolves itself from any liability to the public?

* https://sajs.co.za/article/view/16597/20309&ved