Eskom has lost control of its generation fleet - Mike Rossow

[mpdjhb]

Ted Blom has worked for Eskom and at about two years has more utility experience than De Ruyter. The man does have an exaggerated sense of his worth however.

I really don't like the guy - full blown Monday Morning Quarterback

 

[Swa]

Ted was at Eskom way back. Long list of consultancy posts at the big US mgmt consultancies, so I'll take his view over Eskom's...

Yup and their predictions have been spot on and honest while Eskom's hasn't but (some) people continue to laugh at them. I wonder how much experience these critics have.

 

[deweyzeph]

Yup and their predictions have been spot on and honest while Eskom's hasn't but (some) people continue to laugh at them. I wonder how much experience these critics have.

Yip, talk about shooting the messenger. I've seen no evidence to contradict what these energy analysts have been telling us for ages. Maybe their timing hasn't quite been spot on, but their predictions are all coming true.

 

[WollieVerstege]

Yip, talk about shooting the messenger. I've seen no evidence to contradict what these energy analysts have been telling us for ages. Maybe their timing hasn't quite been spot on, but their predictions are all coming true.

Agreed, the reason I went completely off grid 3 years ago was because a friend who is "in the know" originally told me in 2007 already that if I am not generating my own power by 2020, I'll pretty much have none. Seems his prediction might end up only being out by couple of years.
He could not have foreseen the reprieve that the global financial crisis and the Covid lockdowns gave us. Who knows where we would have been today if not for that.

 

[Magnum]

Our power just went out.

There's not a single stage on which we are scheduled to have loadshedding during this slot. So something somewhere is definitely broken.

That would be the ANC, Sir Ogre.

 

[Sapphiron]

If someone is incompetent, it's their managers fault.

If the manager is incompetent, it's the director/executive's fault.

If the director/executive is incompetent, it's the board's fault.

If the board is incompetent, it's the shareholders fault.

Eskom's shareholders are government.

Time to replace the shareholders of Eskom

 

[Aghori]

Everything is going as planned for our Great Reset. Don't worry too much about it - just go about your normal lives and you'll be just fine.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Thankfully I still have control over my own generation fleet

Where does you food come from?

 

[Lupus]

Where does you food come from?

Maybe he's gone like the good life.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Maybe he's gone like the good life.

Of course it's good to cover your immediate power needs but don't come off as your panels just made jesus come where as if the grid really fails or down for extended periods of times you also will be ****ed. Unless your panels can also create food, water, petrol, etc. Otherwise you are a bit daft.

 

[The_Librarian]

Another ANC success story.

 

[Shadowchaser1]

That SA hasn't had riots as in Big Time is unreal.

 

[backstreetboy]

Of course it's good to cover your immediate power needs but don't come off as your panels just made jesus come where as if the grid really fails or down for extended periods of times you also will be ****ed. Unless your panels can also create food, water, petrol, etc. Otherwise you are a bit daft.

Never heard of electric cars?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Another ANC success story.

Imagine how vindicated, fulfilled, proud and content the original freedom fighters and their leaders would feel if they still existed (well the ones that mattered). They did so much for such a great and ever lasting legacy.

 

[The_Librarian]

Frankenstein Unbound?

 

[PaulMurkin]

If they have indeed lost control of the machines, then how come they can bring them back online.
The terminology is plain old use of "Loaded Words" journalism 101.

"Eskom has run out of options with its generation fleet".
They are still in control, if they were not, the entire country would be sitting without power at this moment, from Pretoria to Cape Town.

De Ruyter is a liar, of that there is no doubt...

 

[richjdavies]

Energy experts Mike Rossoue, Ted Blom and Chris Yelland.

Never worked a day at a utility or power station.

They only usefull to generate headlines.

Im not sure thats true... Yelland has run a technical.publication (EE) for many years, Russouw ran the EUG. Ted Blom just repeats what Yelland says anyway

Maybe the click bait is non sense, but the guys themselves are real experts.

 

[wni5378]

And you're only realising this now?

What is the point exactly? Sensationalism?

 

[SubtleBeast]

Eskom appoints ‘energy thought leader’ – Mike Rossouw - ESI-Africa.com

Mike Rossouw, former Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) chairperson has taken up a new role at Eskom in an advisory capacity, offering a fresh perspective on its challenges, including its current electricity shortage financial sustainability and completion of the Medupi and Kusile power...

www.esi-africa.com

https://za.linkedin.com/in/tedblom

I'm not a leader, but I can also thought about energy.

 

[joshuatree]

#PREPPER. New word to the Mzansi dictionary.