That is one of the reasons why the conveyers were destroyed and burned. To get trucking going, one huge racket. LS is a money making racket. It’s no questions asked of suppliers, when delivering, anything goes.
Groetnis
I still maintain that this is NOT how you do a performance evaluation. There are these things which the management people call “KPIs”, Key Performance Indicators. They are usually things like maintaining production levels of at least x% or lowering costs of y% etc etc. But the average citizen (and ANC politician apparently) approaches this in the same way they approach the national soccer team.
What, we lost another game!? Fire the coach! Get a new coach!
My view is somewhat influenced by my man CS Lewis, on an analogous line of reasoning regarding the use of “raw material”, in other words what life hands you.
Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler?
In short, we judge a man on the external results, but what we ought to do is take into account the raw material he has to work with. The nasty old lady (who suffers from constant pain due to illness) may be a better person than the nice man living next door once you do that, and similarly, those CEOs who managed to keep the lights on may well deserve way less credit for doing so…
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Victron!
To what extent does load shedding on a continuous basis create the impetus for private sector to rapidly transition to self-generation or deploy battery-based renewables to make the bridge?
Does that actually improve the efficiency of the economy, drive local investment and grow the burgeoning renewables industry locally?
I believe in years to come we will see that South Africa has one of the highest rates of battery-based SSEG in the world - because the incentives were in place.
The only difference will be in the rest of the world, the “incentive” is government offers money to drive investment. In South Africa, the “incentive” is government-owned SoE makes power go away regularly enough that you ‘maak a plan’ and fix the problem for yourself.
Rest of the World, please go solar, here are incentives to do so….
South Africa…. Please do not use our energy, also we penalise you for going Solar. What happens in reality? We go solar and fix the mess for ourselves.
Groetnis
Right, I have now decided, even though it does not affect me, these schedules are BS. Whoever thought them out did not think in “rands and cents”, they thought in “make it look complicated and look good, they can see how hard we work”! “Panic” came to mind actually. This is killing the economy.
Businesses cannot work like this. Tell them what it is, and they can plan accordingly, make money, and continue employing staff.
The only reason I am very interested, was the 8am LS slot, hence I have become aware of the pattern, or lack thereof.
What is the bee in my bonnet?
Late yesterday LS 4, we have 8am, 4pm and 12am slots. No problem.
Then it becomes Level 3, still 8am, 4pm and 12am, ok, no changes.
Then suddenly Level 1 today, no LS today, with Cpt assistance.
This morning, back to Level 3, 4pm slot again.
All that in a few hours!?
If I had staff, with set-in-stone LS levels, I could have changed working hours to fit LS schedules for the week. Hence, me saying, this is BS.
No business in my mind can operate like this.
And no, not every business can run on solar/diesel generators, ask business owners. Eskom is required to be able to make a profit for most of the businesses out there in these tough financial times.
LS levels, should NOT be determined by “politicians”.
You’re observing an incredibly unstable system with no fat to give, nor take, even a little bit to dampen any disturbance.
Either that or you’re a little princess upset about a pea 
But I suspect the mattress is a paper towel.
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And come winter, it gets very “cold” on that “paper towel”. 
THIS:
Set it to Level 4, and alter the times between provinces monthly under #EskomDayZero
Then I see the article …“New Eskom board’s 75% energy availability factor mandate is impossible: DBSA chair”.
LS levels, and now I add EAF, should NOT be determined by “politicians”.
My “vloermoer” (temper tantrum) is not going to make any difference, but geez, it is time that SA gets worked up and start “throwing our toys out of the cot” and demand politicians get out of running Eskom.
Big Business can jump in any time too.
For I bet my left nut that the engineers, who are the most qualified, are saying “no, don’t do that … we need more time”.
I’m observing that we are running flat out towards a cliff being led by politicians in “charge of power generation”.
This could get interesting… Waiting to see if he goes very quite on twitter (https://twitter.com/koko_matshela)
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It “feels like” bigger and bigger fish are being hooked … but I have these uncomfortable feelings it has to do with the upcoming elections, and may not continue going forward.
Few big tokens …
On the positive side, maybe it is a new era, with more and more big fish going down.
You mean like the Zondo commission and everybody they jailed 
Groetnis
In speaking to some legal minds about what Zondo found, they sounded “despondent”, my word.
In non-legal speak, my words, there are not enough trained legal resources to even attempt to properly prosecute all that came out. Not to mention the lack of resources in building the case, the courts.
And if all was in place, it will take decades to do it properly.
Me thinks there is a snake in the grass here… Remember the infamous 10 boere that were prosecuted for hoogveraad for more than 10 years… With Zondo, you do not jail comrades, they may then rat you out. Or shall we say start explaining where the $5Mil couch came from lets say…
Political will and still captured apparatus, sitting on your hands are not the same as capacity constraints.
Groetnis
Koko was the one making noise about how De Ruyter is incompetent because he (Koko) managed to keep the power on. Koko is actually an engineer by training, and some days (just some days) I wondered if maybe he has a point.
Then again, a little bit of scratching says he has a “B.Sc. Chemical Engineering from UCT”. That’s a bit of a contradiction. Baccalaureus scientiae (Bacherlor of science) is not really the same as a B.Eng, Bachelor of engineering. The latter is typically a more challenging field of study. I know because I have a B.Sc myself, and I do not count it as being on par with a “real engineering degree”.
In some ways he is also a fallen hero. Maybe I’m being too kind, but rather that than the reverse. He joined Eskom in 1996, straight out of university. And he made it all the way to CEO. It could have been a massive success story…
And he won’t let you forget it. See Twitter
Reminds me of Emily Howard…
(Except for the 2m mark, don’t see him Engineering himself out of that.)
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Followup is out.
Quite a bit more detail in this one:
Or the Bucket lady…
Thar she blows … some more.
If this is the outlook we are in for a whole lot of hurt. Lots of monies involve here. None we have unless we get that international finance.
#EskomMediaStatement
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) October 28, 2022
Eskom’s updated TDP 2022 is projecting a requirement of up to 53GW of renewable energy over the next 10 years pic.twitter.com/pw0lSEzJWH
I think we know the hurt we are in (?), based on what we deduce ourselves here over time, our own experiences, and people working in businesses looking for more solutions, as it got worse this year.
Now it is just being made more “official”, admitting the hell we know we are facing, Eskom Exec speaking less candidly, maybe starting a snowball effect …
Ps. I’ve always been a teeny bit miffed with big business SA keeping mum, big huge taxpayers, maybe now they could speak up some more themselves.