Eskom aiming to suspend cuts from 5th May

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Hopefully it's the last, wishful thinking I know ;)
 
I don't wanna get happy in case it's some shortlived sick joke :o
 
ahahaha... they are scared a few more substations are gonna blow like the one in Kempton Park and the one in Port Elizabeth, and they cannot afford the legal recourse if that happens.

Fortunately our local substation here in Alberton is in such a mess that they dare not turn it off, cos they know they will never be able to get it on again.

And now the National Electricity regulator announces that Eskom might be fined up to R2Million rand a day because of failure to meet their provision license regulations.

This has nothing to do with people saving, but everything to do with the mess that Eskom finds themselves in.
 
Garyvdh said:
ahahaha... they are scared a few more substations are gonna blow like the one in Kempton Park and the one in Port Elizabeth, and they cannot afford the legal recourse if that happens.

Fortunately our local substation here in Alberton is in such a mess that they dare not turn it off, cos they know they will never be able to get it on again.

And now the National Electricity regulator announces that Eskom might be fined up to R2Million rand a day because of failure to meet their provision license regulations.

This has nothing to do with people saving, but everything to do with the mess that Eskom finds themselves in.
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Not to mention the one here in DBN that left me without power for 26 odd hours :mad:
 
wonder what the spin doctors predict the believe cut-off point is - their backs are really against the wall - the real shame is there is a lot of anger at Eskom, but less at Telkom - and the real problem is with Government, who in turn both turn around and say that people like us do not know what we are talking about, but the track record says otherwise - to quote someone from Eskom, time will tell - somehow reminds me of the movie, take the money and run
 
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=757916

Electricity substations are exploding around the country and the blame is being shifted between Eskom and municipalities.

Trade union Solidarity says municipalities are not maintaining their substations, but the councils say their infrastructure was not designed to cope with frequent load shedding.

Thousands of Kempton Park residents are still without power after a substation in Spartan caught fire last Tuesday.

Solidarity spokesman Bennie Blignaut said there was a “critical shortage of maintenance staff” at substations.

“Municipalities don’t have artisans left to monitor these substations. Load shedding has nothing to do with this. These substations are in disrepair.”

An explosion at a substation left Walmer without power till Friday.

Lourens Schoeman, spokesman for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, said the explosion was the result of load shedding.

“Circuit breakers that are not designed to be switched on and off at regular intervals — as had been done because of load shedding — caused the explosion.

“Substations get maintained all the time. This load shedding is abnormal and that’s why [explosions] happen,” he said.

Blignaut doesn’t agree. “ Why did it take them that long to fix [the Kempton Park substation] — it’s because they don’t have the people to do the work.”

Eskom could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Meanwhile, Ekurhuleni Metro police spokesman Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said Eskom had assured them it would restore electricity in Kempton Park as soon as possible.

But resident Zakes Makhubu, an SAA staff member, said he can’t take the blackouts anymore.

"The problem is that we don’t know who to talk to about this situation. I’m even thinking of out moving out," he said.

Another irate resident of the suburb Penelope Molefe said: "This is nonsense, it’s terrible. Without electricity for seven days where do you eat, bath? It’s such an inconvenience." she said.

Yesterday Nhlapo, said places affected by last week’s power failure were the Kempton Park CBD, the industrial area and Spartan.

He said these areas have been without electricity since 2:30pm on Tuesday.

"We are glad to report that there have not been any fatalities as a result of the power failure," said Nhlapo.

He said most of the other parts of Kempton Park were not affected and that the local hospital was functioning normal with the help of generators.

"We hope that things will get back to normal by Friday and hope that residents will be able to enjoy the long weekend with electricity back at their homes," he said.

# Walmer residents, in Port Elizabeth had their electricity restored on Friday.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality spokesman Laurens Schoeman said power had been restored to the area and that everything was back to normal.
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Eskom in regulator probe

Eskom in regulator probe
Apr 30 2008 8:28AM
Johannesburg - Eskom is under investigation by the National Electricity Regulator (Nersa), SABC news reported on Tuesday.

The investigation was prompted by January's unexpected load shedding, after Eskom's unplanned maintenance of its generators, the report said.

Stiff penalties could be on the cards if the power utility transgressed its licence conditions.

The conditions include maintenance of schedules; code of practice for electricity metering; standards of service and quality of service. Eskom is due to explain itself before the Nersa Board next week.

Its capacity, coal reserves, and unplanned maintenance are some of the issues that will be probed.

If licence conditions were transgressed, Eskom will have a lot to answer for ... "even a R2m fine per day", said Nersa's executive manager Mbulelo Nceteza.

Nersa will also be looking at public submissions on Eskom's application to hike tariffs by 53%.

Tuesday was the cut-off for written submissions.

Nersa would make its decision known on June 6, SABC reported.

- Sapa
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http://www.fin24.com/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_2314471
 
It sure took the dimwit's in charge to realise that the cost of replacing the ageing distribution equipment (cables and Oil Circuit Breakers) and the destruction of our industrial sector due to load shedding, is far greater than the penalties they'd pay for severing the contracts to supply our neighbouring countries (yes they have been supplying them while load shedding SA).
What kind of planning is that - sign on additional consumers, our neighbours, at exceptionally low rates while fully aware that the generating capacity has not been, and will not be expanded to accommodate this - and they still expect big fat bonuses.

"We have said from the beginning that load shedding is not our preferred option to achieve the 10% savings the nation needs," Eskom's chief executive Jacob Maroga told Sapa.
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The nation needs reliable electric power you MegaTwatt.
 
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It's not only sub stations that are blowing up, I watched a house burn down last night due to a gyser that just had enough of being shut off so many times, that the thermostat went faulty and the gyser when bang :( What was really sad is it took the police (who are not even 1km away from the house) over an hour to get there and the fire department took just under an hour (they are 2km away)
 
While this is a welcome decision, it's total bull*****.

One momemt we're all going to Hell in a handbasket if rolling blackouts are not introduced, then, even with winter coming on, we suddenly have enough power to suspend the blackouts.

We are not being told the truth. We are being manipulated for some, as yet, unknown reason.

The supply and usage is simply NOT going up and down in an unpredictable way. I also notice that the Eskom site has blocked access to all the Western Cape usage figures.

It is about time that the government showed a transparent face, not the Mugabe like attitude that is becoming more and more prevalent.
 
n1hilist said:
1 Load shed
2 Demand more moneys
3 ...
4 PROFIT!
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Just an inside hint, but Eskom is making a loss for the last financial year (ending March2008) because they had to use gas (diesel) power stations costing Eskom R2/kWh.
 
I think that this has more to do with the exploding substations than to do with the "reduction" of demand.
 
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