Nationwide blackout's consequences severe: Eskom

I have sympathy for Eskom. I think political influence and interference, coupled with poor top management has made their job so unnecessarily difficult.

I'm sure that there are many ground staff working hard in trying to avoid the blackout, but poop from upstairs is making it impossible to work cleanly and efficiently.
 
And then they have the constant threat of go slow's and mass strikes.
 
Now listen Skippy. And listen closely. It would take the grid two weeks to recover from a nationwide blackout. But you won't recover as I can almost guarantee that all senior Eskom Staff will be lynched in the first week.

Here's a the picture - Eskom 1995 - 48 000 staff and 30 managers - working grid.
Eskom 2014 - 8000 staff and 300 managers - ****ed up grid, overdue projects, incompetence, veiled threats.

The man in charge of Nkandla knows that he will not survive such a ****up, as people will die from this, including babies in incubators without backup generators. The monkey in the red beret will blame him and stir up a lot of angry people. And he will lay the blame directly in your lap. If you are lucky you will get out of the country in one piece , looking over your back for the rest of your life. If you are not lucky you will end up swinging under a lamppost.

There's some good people working in that company - and one of them actually gave me that scenario and the numbers. But you are not one of them. Sort your house out before we sort it Africa style.
 
Standard procedure for this time of year. Threaten blackouts, announce load shedding to show off how bad the situation is going, announce massive increases in electricity price to [-]cover exorbitant bonuses for cadres[/-] fix it.
 
It might take two weeks to recover the electricity aspect of things but can you imagine what would happen to the economy? JSE would probably crash. It would take years to fully recover.
 
TJ99 said:
Standard procedure for this time of year. Threaten blackouts, announce load shedding to show off how bad the situation is going, announce massive increases in electricity price to [-]cover exorbitant bonuses for cadres[/-] fix it.
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Massive price increase was already announced, we just don't know the exact percentage yet, but its safe to assume it will be around 7% over the current 8% increase.
 
is it increase time already??
watch them make this a reality in the next month ... with a blackout here and there, just to apply some pressure on NERSA to grant their increase/bonus
 
TJ99 said:
Standard procedure for this time of year. Threaten blackouts, announce load shedding to show off how bad the situation is going, announce massive increases in electricity price to [-]cover exorbitant bonuses for cadres[/-] fix it.
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Pretty much.

Wonder why were getting the grid collapse story though...the must be in need of a big increase / bail-out...
 
The mind boggles..

Burn shyte down and protest, and get illegal connection re-established.. :wtf:

I want an illegal electricity connection that I don't pay for please.
 
ToxicBunny said:
The mind boggles..

Burn shyte down and protest, and get illegal connection re-established.. :wtf:

I want an illegal electricity connection that I don't pay for please.
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that's how the anc keeps its support. shyte like this that other people pay for.
 
The_MAC said:
I have sympathy for Eskom. I think political influence and interference, coupled with poor top management has made their job so unnecessarily difficult.

I'm sure that there are many ground staff working hard in trying to avoid the blackout, but poop from upstairs is making it impossible to work cleanly and efficiently.
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No sympathy from me.

Yes government is partly responsible but Eskom (like government) chucked out everything in the name of transformation regardless of consequences .. and now there are consequences.

The sad part is you and I will be paying for this mess.
 
HavocXphere said:
Wonder why were getting the grid collapse story though...the must be in need of a big increase / bail-out...
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All everyone seems to speak about these days is the lack of generation capacity and, yes, South Africa doesn't have enough generation capacity online at the moment. However, NO ONE EVER seems to mention the grid and the horrible condition it is in. Maintenance on some areas of the grid has been neglected for YEARS and millions will be needed to upgrade it. So... maybe this is indeed a prelude to asking for funds to fix the grid? (I'm willing to bet that when Medupi and Kusile eventually come online that we'll still have loadshedding, simply because the grid cannot carry the generated power.)
 
Basically, Eskom has been extremely reluctant to welcome any other electricity generator and made their life hell and now they complain of not having enough generation capability.

The new REFIT solar plants are ready to produce except that Eskon's only task in this is to connect it to the grid, which they have not done since more then six months for some plants. Reason: capex frozen...

On the other hand, projects are booming in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana.

It will be funny when Eskom will be at the edge of collapsing and that the private producers there will be able to set price they want...
 
f2wohf said:
The new REFIT solar plants are ready to produce except that Eskon's only task in this is to connect it to the grid, which they have not done since more then six months for some plants. Reason: capex frozen...
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It's not quite as simple as that. Also - those PV plants won't really address our capacity problems.
 
ceciliahaak said:
All everyone seems to speak about these days is the lack of generation capacity and, yes, South Africa doesn't have enough generation capacity online at the moment. However, NO ONE EVER seems to mention the grid and the horrible condition it is in. Maintenance on some areas of the grid has been neglected for YEARS and millions will be needed to upgrade it. So... maybe this is indeed a prelude to asking for funds to fix the grid? (I'm willing to bet that when Medupi and Kusile eventually come online that we'll still have loadshedding, simply because the grid cannot carry the generated power.)
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Agree, I also wonder how a black out can occur, surely there would be loadshedding to prevent total blackout.
 
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