Eskom says it is running out of replacement transformer and substation components

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Eskom warns it is running out of spares to fix substations

Electricity equipment failures that occur when power is restored after load-shedding in Gauteng are putting further strain on South Africa's power utility due to limited stock levels of mini-substations and transformers.

Eskom said it had replaced or repaired 116 damaged substations and 1,326 transformers, costing the power utility R152 million.
 
Any competent person would look at the Eskom situation and thing "We need to remove Eskom from the equation ASAP! Lets immediately pass a law allowing IPP's to produce and sell to municipalities without any red tape. Lets allow immediate private power generation of up to 100MW with no red tape!".

But alas the ANC just sit there and suck their thumbs and have endless "urgent meetings" to pass resolutions on setting up more meetings.
 
The Darkness said:
That’s a bit of a stretch. But ok
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Yeah this was a stretch when anyone said it.
But if you look around at everything our country right now...
Eskom cannot keep up. It's obvious. And doesn't really seem that it's possible to be in their control.
We have massive rise in terrorist attacks in our country, and these are still deemed the norm and acceptable.
The petrol price is doing lotsa joy for this situation.
The rate at what people are taking jobs is low(er).
These are the short term things screwing us.
BEE-USELESS is still damaging our country. Was a really great idea using those subcontractors. Too bad they wernt skilled or trustworthy. But atleast they were BEE.

How much more damage can eskom infrastructure handle from terrorists and loadshedding.
If there is a margin for error it surely is becoming less

And other companies are suffering as well. And it's not the first year of suffering.

The foreigners in our country are pretty pissed with our government and I'm pretty convinced the damage of that is comming.

Anyways this comment is not a news article and nothing was fact check. So consider it opinion.
I'm sure my opinion will be different next week anyways
 
qscwbt said:
Do you know what breaks equipment. Load shedding. This equipment was never designed to be switched on and off.
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While true,their only other options are:
* Sort the maintenance and reduced availability issues
* Allow IPPs to hook in and produce power en masse
* or total blackout which in South Africa's case would take days -> weeks to get the grid started up and synced again
 
PsyWulf said:
While true,their only other options are:
* Sort the maintenance and reduced availability issues
* Allow IPPs to hook in and produce power en masse
* or total blackout which in South Africa's case would take days -> weeks to get the grid started up and synced again
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Or permanently disconnect some of the heavy industry users, instantly solves the demand side problem. Economic fall out for a different thread to debate on.
 
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