POWER ALERT 1 Date: 16 January 2020 A positive outlook for the system today Thursday, 16 January 2020: The system is looking better today as units that were on unplanned outages due to coal handling problems caused by flooding started pumping power into the grid although not yet at full capacity. While the overall system…
Cape Town – The public has until January 20 to comment on Eskom’s application to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a tariff increase to recover R27billion in losses from load shedding. This tariff increase will probably see electricity costs increase by up to 17%. Nersa said it would assess Eskom’s application following…
Stage 2 rotational load shedding will be implemented from 09:00 until 23:00 tonight. Eskom will continue to provide regular updates about the state of the power system through various media platforms.
Yesterday, along with many people, my blood boiled at the stage 6 outage and the drastic effects on our economy. I promised action on my Facebook and didn’t need to say much to encourage the press release of a media statement by our CEO of the South African Chamber of Commerce (SACCI). They were already…