Eskom ... is there ANY chance? In CPT there is

[TheTerribleTriplet]

Now we are getting somewhere … it makes sense to me waht they are saying …

Cape Town’s wheeling project can power business, but what about residential?

… sorry no quotes … too much info to sum it up as each person will have a “takeaway”

[TheTerribleTriplet]

Iro of the possible, it will be true when it is done and operational, of splitting Eskom into three parts, this article was interesting.

R500 billion Transnet mess to be handed over to the private sector

Specifically this part …

The plan is the latest evidence that South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has been forced into backtracking on one of its core tenets — that state companies and investment will lead economic growth — and instead rely on the private sector to arrest the decline of services. Private companies are also investing in power and water provision, two services that were once the near-exclusive purview of the South African state.

Will be interesting to see if it actually materializes, SOE getting fixed by the private sector.

The only concern I have IF this is coming is that I don’t want big private companies dictating to a Politician what s[he] must “make happen” in order to increase their profits “at all costs” … time will tell.

[TheTerribleTriplet]

Saw this in an Email from Daily Maverick, Ferial Haffajee.

From a municipal point of view, the City of Johannesburg is the metro with the highest installed capacity at 586MW, consisting of residential and C&I systems, closely followed by Pixley ka Seme district municipality with an installed capacity of 583MW made up of REIPPP projects, representing just over 10% of the nation’s installed capacity, respectively.

The City of Tshwane boasts the largest number of residential installations at 22,956, closely followed by the City of Cape Town at 21,342. eThekwini has the largest average residential systems at 10.8kWp per system, followed by the City of Cape Town at 7kWp.

What is the impact on grid stability I wonder, over time that is, when only one province follows the regulations as per SA Gov?

Time will tell. No concern of mine.

In other news … “good luck” to them. When “faceless” SARS has your number, you have nowhere to run.

SARS tip-offs lead to coal smugglers search-and-seizure operation

In a welcome move towards repairing the broken utility that is often referred to as ‘Eishkom’, a massive inter-governmental search and seizure operation across five provinces was carried out on 12 October, 2023.

The operation, intended to “break the back” of a sophisticated criminal syndicate of alleged coal-smugglers, was led by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) after information regarding a host of tax crimes allegedly committed by members of the coal-smuggling syndicate became available.

…

SARS managed to establish links between individuals and related entities and confirmed the following possible gross contraventions from a tax perspective:

• Non-registration for income tax, VAT and/or PAYE.
• Failure to submit tax returns.
• Under-declaration of income.
• Claiming undue VAT refunds.
• Making false submissions (fraud)

I call this move the “Al Capone” move.
When the Police/Court’s are hampered, no sweat, let’s go for their “wallets”.

Eina! (NOT!!!)

[TheTerribleTriplet]

O my, this is interesting … nogal reported on the same day as the SARS “move”.

Cape Town mayor takes on construction mafia, launches anti-extortion campaign

Wonder if the Stanfield and Johnson court case is the straw breaking this camel’s back …

Time will tell.

[Swartkat]

When I see news like this, I almost have a glimpse of hope for good old SA.

That we’re not in tatters yet. Rock bottom still some time away.

[TheTerribleTriplet]

Seems my “gutfeel” was not far off ito Grotman causing dramas.

Eskom, Transnet former board members blame ‘meddling’ Minister Pravin Gordhan...

A memorandum of incorporation is a document governed by the Companies Act that outlines the roles and fiduciary duties of directors and executives.

“The minister, as the shareholder representative, should be able to select directors of the businesses in line with the Companies Act. But those directors must then be empowered and be accountable for the performance of the entities.

“Right now, that cannot happen in SOEs because the boards are disempowered on the most critical decision they should be making,” said Mavuso.

Interference by Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is believed to be behind the sudden resignation of Eskom’s Makwana, who leaves the power utility at the end of this month. Makwana’s relationship with Gordhan broke down over the process to appoint a CEO to replace De Ruyter.

And De Ruyter has a few more things to say:

‘Net son- en kernkrag kan Eskom nou red’ | Maroela Media

[TheTerribleTriplet]

No comment … will see.

Herstel van Kusile ‘vroeër as verwag’ | Maroela Media

[Sarel.Wagner]

No it just won’t, moron.

MoronieseGroetnis

[Sarel.Wagner]

30 Oct 2022 report from Eskom:
2023 predicted EAF was at 60% vs actuals still going down as per the bottom image, f*%^&$ morons

As it is, we already way lower than even their most dire predictions…
Actuals for the last week:

Groetnis

[Sarel.Wagner]

In number of countries, you will be fired if you give the higher ups bad news, so never mind the actual state of affairs, paper is patient.

SiekensatGroetnis

[TheTerribleTriplet]

@Sarel.Wagner

No it just won’t, moron.

Mmm,., let’s see … shall I read that as me being a moron?
Or should I read it as Ramokgopa being the moron?

@Sarel.Wagner

As it is, we already way lower than even their most dire predictions…
Actuals for the last week:

I still cannot fathom how Eskom can have near Zero LS … no, renewables don’t work evenings when people go home or mornings to work, the peak times, furthermore, if Eskom is that worse off today, how can they keep it going?

[Sarel.Wagner]

@TheTerribleTriplet

I still cannot fathom how Eskom can have near Zero LS

Not you

By their own predictions including Kusile, for the next year, still &(^&^ morons

Groetnis

[Sarel.Wagner]

At best, looking at that, we be no better than Stage 2, likely mostly stage 4 or worse…

Groetnis

[Robert]

Some more privatisation by stealth

Electricity solutions: Innovating private sector driving progress

[mmaritz]

@TheTerribleTriplet

I still cannot fathom how Eskom can have near Zero LS

I think it’s very simple:

The “gravy train passengers” has been told - elections are coming and if votes aren’t allocated the same way the gravy will disappear… please help keep the status quo so we can continue to serve you… SO - keep the lights on at all costs until after elections 2024!

[TheTerribleTriplet]

With Virtual Wheeling, hope it could alleviate Eskoms load, to sort this brewing fiasco out …

Inverter-buying surge could worsen power crisis, electricity experts warn

Their calculations suggest that if 15% of homes install inverters (without solar power systems to reduce the recharging strain on Eskom) then the benefits of load shedding are reduced by about 60% in summer and about 70% in winter for the residential sector.

And if 25% of homes install batteries/inverters (without solar) then the benefits of household load shedding are cancelled out entirely.

They further caution that if power demand exceeds supply, Eskom generators struggle to keep up and could be disconnected, resulting in a further deficit of supply and “increasing the risk of grid collapse and a total blackout for an extended period of potentially two weeks”.

Therefore, in the absence of additional power generation, Eskom is compelled to manage demand through load shedding (with each stage of load shedding reducing the total energy demand by about 1GW)

What Yelland “yelled” on that, not interested. It is what it is, deal with it, Yelland, I yelled back. Eskom is not gonna fix it.

[plonkster]

The average response on social media is: Eskom caused this mess. We’re not helping them out. We’ll recharge batteries whenever we want and if it goes to stage 8 before 2024… even better.

[TheTerribleTriplet]

Big turn for Eskom and load shedding in South Africa

Look at all the graphs … I simply don’t “get it” … yes renewables and “repairs/maintenance” do help, but I’m not convinced one bit.

We are having a respite … summer and repairs/maintenance done that keeps, probably until after the elections, as @mmaritz has speculated.

But we are nowhere NEAR what Eskom needs to power SA when there is bad weather. Or when more shiite breaks catastrophically, cause as we all know, the stations are mostly EOL and the new ones are so badly built it is a joke.

Aaargh! I don’t know anymore.

[Sarel.Wagner]

Them one orange block from the previous periods now also gonner… and it was on 25th December nodal. What a pressie

InsakenasGroetnis

[TheTerribleTriplet]

We have that, > 2000MW short to meet the demand predicted for a year.

Then we have the “achievements” recently blared out by our energy minister - Kusile as an example.

We can look at all that.

But the “real true” benchmark … we don’t have LS right now. For weeks now.

We have speculations:
It is the solar panel boom that is helping.
That big business jumped in “boots and all” with renewables.
That the economy has shrunk, we actually need less power.
More units are failing less due to “maintenance is done” … in such a short period of time, it is astounding.
Repairs done are coming online, also in “record time”.
… or all the above

We read of bid windows approved, but we don’t have the wires to get the power where it is needed If the installations do continue. Big bucks are needed for that.

Politicians are dead quiet on it all. All of them.

Not a peep from Gordhan, or Mantashe after the last “spat”.

Is this light we see in the tunnel:
A glimpse of the end is in sight, still very far off though.
Or is it the Eskom oukie coming with a paraffin lantern to say the tunnel has collapsed?