How do we survive Eskom blackouts?

get the Eskom management to pay back their bonuses and use that money to convert the Dieseld Gennies to GAs Gennies so there is cost saving as a whole?

forcefully remove illegal electricity connections, and if that fails, for a short burst triple the voltage to the targeted areas where the illegal connections are? sure the points of illegal connects, and the houses around it will blow a few plugs and light bulbs. but it will also cause fires in the shacks stealing electricity dealing with 3 problems. illegal connections, dangerous wiring and illegal housing.
 
Baxteen said:
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forcefully remove illegal electricity connections, and if that fails, for a short burst triple the voltage to the targeted areas where the illegal connections are? sure the points of illegal connects, and the houses around it will blow a few plugs and light bulbs. but it will also cause fires in the shacks stealing electricity dealing with 3 problems. illegal connections, dangerous wiring and illegal housing.
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Not very eloquent, but not untrue either. I would add to that increase the price by 40%.
 
Baxteen said:
get the Eskom management to pay back their bonuses and use that money to convert the Dieseld Gennies to GAs Gennies so there is cost saving as a whole?

forcefully remove illegal electricity connections, and if that fails, for a short burst triple the voltage to the targeted areas where the illegal connections are? sure the points of illegal connects, and the houses around it will blow a few plugs and light bulbs. but it will also cause fires in the shacks stealing electricity dealing with 3 problems. illegal connections, dangerous wiring and illegal housing.
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That is a bad idea. You would likely end up with a LOT of dead kids and pets.

I propose that government builds free "matchbox" houses for shack dwellers. they have more than enough money from taxes to do this. Get independent contractors to bid and make all of it it open to the public so that there can be no corruption.
 
As I've mentioned before, let residential and commercial customers feed back into the grid, compensate them and I am sure you will see a massive uptake of solar installations. Not only will you see a decrease in demand but also an increase in generating capacity and surely it will provide a quick answer at a low cost.

Let's not get into how available cash was utilised...
 
rudyb said:
As I've mentioned before, let residential and commercial customers feed back into the grid, compensate them and I am sure you will see a massive uptake of solar installations. Not only will you see a decrease in demand but also an increase in generating capacity and surely it will provide a quick answer at a low cost.

Let's not get into how available cash was utilised...
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And subsidise the cost of solar panels and batteries if you really want to see an uptake.
 
rudyb said:
As I've mentioned before, let residential and commercial customers feed back into the grid, compensate them and I am sure you will see a massive uptake of solar installations. Not only will you see a decrease in demand but also an increase in generating capacity and surely it will provide a quick answer at a low cost.

Let's not get into how available cash was utilised...
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Very good idea.

This will help a lot - especially when given an incentive for the home owner to make a little bit of money back.

And SARS must NOT tax that.

But they most probably will :( :mad:
 
I wonder how many boilers are running daily for industry - and how many of those are under utilised ... and how many of those could drive a turbine (I imagine that anything over 10 bar could be used - upto 20 bar).

Now if Eskom used the combined potential of industry ..... the knock on is if industrial boilers ran at 100% utilisation at say 85% efficiency ....

The next question would be, could these boilers produce at around R2/ kWh ... the number Eskom claim to pay IPPs.
 
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