'Quick hit' power plan for SA

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Cape Town - South Africa's power outages are a national emergency that must be treated with urgent action, which include a hike in electricity prices, mandatory quotas as well as a penalty and incentive system, says the government.

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The immediate priority to implement a "quick hit" power conservation programme to reduce, and depending on its success, negate the need for load shedding. Eskom is looking for a total reduction of between 15% and 20% of current electricity consumption across the system. A quota system will be one of the "quick hit" ways of achieving this.

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A solar water-heating programme is intended to install 1 million solar water heaters over the next three years. The current cost of the solar heater is prohibitive (it is estimated to cost between R7 000 and R20 000).

"It is also reported that the South African manufacturing capacity is only 10 000 units per annum. To eliminate these barriers, there is a subsidy of 20% - 30% depending on the cost of the unit. The potential savings of this programme is 650 MW. The programme is targeting both the households, group houses (e.g. army bases, mine residences), commercial and industrial applications," said Minister of Minerals of Energy Buyelwa Sonjica.

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Erwin stressed that if citizens and business do not co-operate in reducing demand, the government would get tougher: "It's clear that we are running our power system at utilisation levels that are overstretching maintenance and if we do not stabilise this we could drive our systems into higher levels of stress - this we cannot do!"
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Interesting and expensive times ahead.
 
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I was just going to post this. It's insane.

My favourite sections:

"There's no question of stopping contracted projects or freezing any new projects," said Erwin.
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The government also emphasised that it will not be cutting power supply to other countries in order to improve South Africa's supply.
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and of course,

South Africa's power outages are a national emergency that must be treated with urgent action, which include a hike in electricity prices, mandatory quotas as well as a penalty and incentive system, says the government.
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And this just doesn't make any sense, and no detail is given:
Eskom will also manage residential consumption with new wireless technologies.
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and

Erwin stressed that if citizens and business do not co-operate in reducing demand, the government would get tougher
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Erwin might have another thing coming if he thinks all citizens and business are going to roll over and take this lightly....

Until the cut supply to other countries, I think MANY people will fight them tooth and nail.
 
A solar water-heating programme is intended to install 1 million solar water heaters over the next three years. The current cost of the solar heater is prohibitive (it is estimated to cost between R7 000 and R20 000).
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I'll gladly install one if they are heavily subsidised.
 
Its insane that they want to hike the price for a service they cannot properly supply!.
 
Now would someone please tell me how many times I'll be standing for hours on end fighting at their offices?

We haven't had our meter checked in many, many, MANY years. They're too lazy to visit our suburb, so we're 'averaged' each month.

HtF are they going to take 10% off of our 'average'?

Mhmmmm...here comes fun.

N.
 
Erwin stressed that if citizens and business do not co-operate in reducing demand, the government would get tougher
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Fire his sorry a$$ in my opinion. I think the cabinet needs some load shedding.
 
Mikroz said:
Now would someone please tell me how many times I'll be standing for hours on end fighting at their offices?

We haven't had our meter checked in many, many, MANY years. They're too lazy to visit our suburb, so we're 'averaged' each month.

HtF are they going to take 10% off of our 'average'?

Mhmmmm...here comes fun.

N.
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Hehehe, I had them visit eventually at a house we were renting. Turned out that they owed us in the region of R40000 :eek: for almost 10 years of not checking the meters (it happened to be inside the house).
 
As I predicted - the people who ALREADY save are going to be penalised.
Will someone please lend me a cluebat so I can go visit this *****.

I already cut 10-15% off my usages, now where must I cut next?
Perhaps I should just cut 100% and leave this sorry a$$ country.
 
timgaul said:
Hehehe, I had them visit eventually at a house we were renting. Turned out that they owed us in the region of R40000 :eek: for almost 10 years of not checking the meters (it happened to be inside the house).
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R40K?

are they going to pay that out or just credit your account?
 
Unmitigated disaster if those goes through. This will cost SA all its growth in the last 10 years and more.
 
Erwin stressed that if citizens and business do not co-operate in reducing demand, the government would get tougher: "It's clear that we are running our power system at utilisation levels that are overstretching maintenance and if we do not stabilise this we could drive our systems into higher levels of stress - this we cannot do!"
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Pardon me for being an imbecile, but surely we are only overstretching[sic] the capacity thanks entirely to government's inability to act on information they had at their fingertips a decade ago? I wonder if Erwin and his large mansion will be subjected to equal penalties...
 
I wish they would use brain instead of force . This is leading nowhere ...
 
rvanwyk said:
R40K?

are they going to pay that out or just credit your account?
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Pay out? What dream world are you living in? "Eish, we will credit you."
"Erm, but its R40 000!"
"Rules is rules, sir."

Of course on the plus side no electricity needs to be paid for at least 5 years :D
 
BobbyMac said:
Pardon me for being an imbecile, but surely we are only overstretching[sic] the capacity thanks entirely to government's inability to act on information they had at their fingertips a decade ago? I wonder if Erwin and his large mansion will be subjected to equal penalties...
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Erwin is probably going to get a bonus for "sorting this out".
 
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