Eskom burning through 9 million litres of diesel per day

[BBSA]

Who needs money or fuel, our economy runs on hopes and dreams, we have plenty of that..

We have?

 

[Shadowchaser1]

These guys at Eskom is only hired to do damage control and make excuses.

Is there not a single person who actually does any design/planning for anything at Eskom ?

Everything this idiot is spewing in this article is none of our problem but the way he communicates its as if we are as much at fault as Eskom. So fking ridiculous.

What's interesting is that they also don't provide an alternative solution for future use. Never experienced
LS, left in 2003.

 

[The_MAC]

We have?

Yeah, everyone seems to be walking around with a pep in their step..

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Eskom guzzling enough diesel to fill 200,000 cars per day

Eskom is burning through 9 million litres of diesel per day to run its open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) generating units, chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer has revealed.

This volume of diesel is enough to fill the tanks of up to 112,500 Toyota Hilux bakkies or 200,000 Volkswagen Polos per day.

Quick fix for this: Reboot the current political system and governance.

Until that happens...

 

[ToxicBunny]

What's interesting is that they also don't provide an alternative solution for future use. Never experienced
LS, left in 2003.

Expect to start experiencing it soon when you're power provider can't afford to buy the necessary fuel to generate power.

 

[Fuzzbox]

9 million liters of diesel costs about R180 Million per day to run.
Can the article writers not do any maths.
The beginning of the article says about R50 million per day.
At R180 Million per day that would be R5,4 billion per month or about R64.8 Billion per year

 

[now05ster]

Interestingly I see that Qhebeberera (PE) has no difference between stage 4 and stage 6 loadshedding.

 

[Temujin]

And Europe is coming after our coal.

Europe Turns To South Africa For Coal As It Shuns Russia | OilPrice.com

European buyers are scouring the world as far as South Africa to procure coal as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the threat of more sanctions on Moscow have made Russian coal unsellable with many European utilities

oilprice.com

EU: Bloody 3rd world **** hole nations like SA, all they do is burn coal, do they not care about mah climate change
Also EU: Erm, about that coal we mentioned before, you don't by chance have any to spare do you? We've kinda screwed our selves over here on this one

 

[Bonywasawarrioraway]

Yeah, everyone seems to be walking around with a pep in their step..

thats because in this economy we are reduced to buying our shoes from PEP.

 

[somnambulist]

Would it not be cheaper to have back up units running on natural gas instead?
Considering it’s not really affected by the global oil price.

 

[Gordon_R]

Would it not be cheaper to have back up units running on natural gas instead?
Considering it’s not really affected by the global oil price.

The price of natural gas has risen faster than the oil price, mainly because delivery is complex and bulky. There is not sufficient gas infrastructure in SA at present.

See:

War in Ukraine: West hits Russia with oil bans and gas curbs

The US bans Russian oil, targeting the Russian economy's "main artery" over its invasion of Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

 

[Petec]

Here in the WC, Ankerlig and Acacia have been burning diesel for well over a decade. Permanently.
Ankerlig was supposed to be running on natural gas years ago, but there was not near as much gravy in it for Eskom as compared to buying diesel from their buddies at inflated prices.
"Eskom has not shared how much it pays per litre of diesel, so it is not possible to calculate precisely how much each day’s stock would cost." - And we will NEVER know.

 

[zoozi]

Interestingly I see that Qhebeberera (PE) has no difference between stage 4 and stage 6 loadshedding.

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Tf is this about while we're off 3 times a day? Their name sounds like dry heaving and they have no water so cut them some slack I guess.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Take it Eskom gets the Diesel without the Gov tax?

 

[Oldfut]

Anecdotal I know but a few years ago I did some work for a company with a transport fleet and they were spending about R1m per month on diesel, getting it about R1 below pump price. There was an Eskom open cycle turbine station near them and the company offered that price to Eskom who were paying R1 ABOVE pump price. Eskom weren't interested.

Some tenderpreneurs doing well to very well methinks.

 

[Petec]

Take it Eskom gets the Diesel without the Gov tax?

They can, but there is no gravy in it for them.
Hairdressers selling diesel at higher than pump prices are making a fortune.

 

[RedViking]

Interestingly I see that Qhebeberera (PE) has no difference between stage 4 and stage 6 loadshedding.

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It's because they higher stages starts shedding industrial and other blocks which are not usually shed during lower stages.

That's how it works where I live anyways. We only always get 2 hours of loadshedding no matter the stage. But at higher stages key customers also gets shedding.

 

[Bigjay84]

Guess all those people that bought Jeeps are laughing now