Eskom's increased diesel usage in 2025

Daniel Puchert

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Eskom burning billions

Eskom's data portal shows that the power utility consumed much more diesel in early 2025 than it did over the same period last year.

From 1 to 24 April 2025, Eskom generated 378.9 gigawatt-hours of electricity with diesel-powered open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs), roughly 69% more than in April 2024.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
And they said they where not burning diesel earlier in the year ... nice
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Beginning of the year wasn't bad like it has been recently. Earlier in the year that statement was true.

As of March/April... yea... diesel burn definitely happening more than it should be. Eskom slipping recently.
 
Lupus said:
You can tell time right? You do know that time moves on and you can experience different things at different points in time right?
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Time lines also cross and even run parallel sometimes. Also possible to to have different experience when standing a few feet apart from other people. A time line is not 180 degrees, but a full 360 degrees also.

Weird world we live in.
 
porchrat said:
Beginning of the year wasn't bad like it has been recently. Earlier in the year that statement was true.

As of March/April... yea... diesel burn definitely happening more than it should be. Eskom slipping recently.
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Hey but Eskom won power provider of the year... In 2001, so why did they slip like this...They did something at a previous point in time.

That's basically the same argument when people say oh but three months ago they said they weren't burning a lot.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Time lines also cross and even run parallel sometimes. Also possible to to have different experience when standing a few feet apart from other people. A time line is not 180 degrees, but a full 360 degrees also.

Weird world we live in.
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Except when it comes to something like hey 3 months ago they said X, why is it Y now. 3 months have passed, things have changed. You cannot hold on to the past like that, plus time is actually only linear to our understanding of it, which still makes the simple fact that what they said, is what they said. Not the reality now.
Are you going to go back to 2020 and say hey they said Stage 2 isn't happening, but why is it happening today??
 
Increase requests to follow.

They cannot/won't fix anything and have turned from coal to diesel and heaven help us when the diesel generators end up like the coal generators.
 
Hemi300c said:
Increase requests to follow.

They cannot/won't fix anything and have turned from coal to diesel and heaven help us when the diesel generators end up like the coal generators.
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A real logic argument right here... Oh wait no, first off how much diesel generation do you think they have? They can't have moved from coal to diesel as in order to do that they'd require a lot more diesel generators. Which currently there isn't, at most there is 5% of total generation capacity in the diesel side of things.
Even at full tilt the diesel covers a 5% deficit in the coal, so yeah back to your great logical reasoning there.
 
Lupus said:
Except when it comes to something like hey 3 months ago they said X, why is it Y now. 3 months have passed, things have changed. You cannot hold on to the past like that, plus time is actually only linear to our understanding of it, which still makes the simple fact that what they said, is what they said. Not the reality now.
Are you going to go back to 2020 and say hey they said Stage 2 isn't happening, but why is it happening today??
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Don't remember the exact dates they said they where not burning diesel - they could have started the day after ...

But my feeling is that it was end February early March.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Don't remember the exact dates they said they where not burning diesel - they could have started the day after ...

But my feeling is that it was end February early March.
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So it could've been last year, could've been Jan, cause you can't remember the exact dates :p. See this is the problem, you remember them saying they weren't burning diesel, but you cannot pin point it exactly. See how time moves according to our brains ;-)
 
Diesel gets burned, whether it be by private companies/citizens during loadshedding, or by Eskom when there isn't loadshedding.

I prefer that it is burned by Eskom and there's no loadshedding.
 
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