Eskom exports keep increasing - while load shedding SA

[Frankie]

How the hell can these dimwits continue to supply ultra cheap power to the neighbours while load shedding SA?

Eskom exports keep increasing

Johannesburg - In the three months to March, electricity exports rose as much as 6.1% year-on-year, while electricity distributed to the nine provinces fell by 1.7%, Statistics SA said.

T-Sec chief economist Mike Schussler said that last year local residents paid 3.7 times more for electricity than the average selling price to neighbouring countries, Business Report reported on Wednesday.

But, while exports climbed, imports fell as much as 22.4%, said Stats SA.

Eskom was not available to comment, the report said.

South Africa imports power from Cahora Bassa in Mozambique.

They're not available for comment because they're 'not all there'.

 

[stoke]

Mass consumer action is required on this one.

AND, these ESKOM bastards have the gaul to accuse me of NOT saving 10% on my electricity bill.

We must rally against them and demand that ESKOM:

1 - Stop accusing the public of NOT SAVING 10% on the electricity consumption, and instead name and shame those that are not complying on a website where the named and shamed ones get the opportunity to answer 14 workdays before the names are published. (I am keen to see how Ekhoerhoelenie municipality (Edenvale) is going to answer a name and shame query when they have not entered a single meter reading from me correctly. EVER. Despite having taken the reading 5 times now.)
2 - Give notice of contract termination on the power export contracts, and publish the details of these.
3 - Publish the current cost of electricity that they charge the municipalities in each region so that we can take our municipalities on regarding their excessive mark-ups.

Simple, clear concise demands, so that we can clear out all the confusion, cos the municipalities are ALSO lying through their teeth and need to be kicked HARD.

 

[Weasley]

I wonder what and if it is possible will happen when all(100%) the consumer switch off there main in the same hour for a hour will the grid fall over? if not will we save electricity?

 

[stoke]

I wonder what and if it is possible will happen when all(100%) the consumer switch off there main in the same hour for a hour will the grid fall over? if not will we save electricity?

We'll save 1 hours electricity and ESKOM will still produce exactly the same amount of electricity regardless. For this kind of action to work, it would have to be 3 days or more before it starts to have an effect on ESKOM.

But, we can just make demands without doing crap like that. And when our demands are not answered, then we can start organizing protest ACTION.

 

[Frankie]

I wonder what and if it is possible will happen when all(100%) the consumer switch off there main in the same hour for a hour will the grid fall over? if not will we save electricity?

No, the grid wont fall over.
When the masses turn off their power Eishkom will reduce load on many units and possibly take some off-line, then when the masses turn their power on again they will load shed if they cannot get the units back online fast enough.

 

[Frankie]

The DA asks 'Why were exports up?'

Lets see if the DA can get answers from Richard Head Erwin.

'Why were exports up?'

The Democratic Alliance (DA) will ask parliamentary questions to determine whether South Africans are being unfairly penalised regarding electricity supplies, the party said on Wednesday.

Not only had electricity exports to neighbouring countries increased in the year to March 2008, but Eskom had also provided less electricity to South Africans over the same period, spokesperson Manie van Dyk said.

This while South Africans had been forced to contend with crippling rolling blackouts, power rationing and "load shedding".

 

[Ozymandias]

Eskom has been used as a foreign aid agency by the government. There's so much stranded power so let's give it away at cost, just above cost or below cost. Let's also give it away at just above cost to municipalities so they can double the price to their respective consumers and raise revenue rather than receive direct government handouts. We've got so much of this stuff so let's sell it at just above cost to attract electricity guzzling industries to our shores who then resell the finished products back to us at import parity pricing. Eskom still looks a financially viable company with R6.5-billion annual profits but they, the government, somehow forgot to factor in the replacement costs for new power stations. What a mess!!