Thanks to diesel supplied by PetroSA, Eskom will be able to reduce load shedding to Stage 3 from Stage 4 during the night, Eskom said. This is expected to last until Monday morning.
The electric company lacks funds to run the units in order to avoid or minimize power cuts for the rest of the financial year. The increased load shedding is mainly due to the high levels of breakdowns and the depleted emergency generation reserves, Eskom said. "Changes in the stages of load shedding will be more erratic due to the absence of the buffer that is normally provided by the diesel generation capacity between generating unit breakdowns," the power utility said.
The utility, which is waiting for more details on government’s plan to take on a significant portion of its R400 billion debt, says that it is now financially untenable to burn more diesel at its Open Cycle Gas Turbines."We will be forced to implement load shedding because we don't have the money to burn diesel," COO Jan Oberholzer said at Eskom’s state of the system briefing.
There are expectations from government and Eskom’s new chair Mpho Makwana for the utility to hit a 75% energy availability factor soon."Where we find ourselves now, it looks like a steep hill … However, we need additional capacity, in order for generation colleagues to properly maintain their plants," Oberholzer said.
_Business One State entity bailed out by another. Still our money.
_Business Wait for another two weeks. There'll be another excuse for loadsheding
_Business When are you going to stop publishing drivel? You know that this is just another lie from the daily soap opera. ‘The Eskom of our lives.’
_Business Remember, nothing is state funded, it's all taxpayer funded.
_Business Temporally avoiding the inevitable. Proudly brought to by the looting honorable members.
_Business The media is part of this corruption
_Business 😂 rubbish heee banna
_Business The lies we keep reading 🥲 ... there's no diesel, suddenly diesel appears from some company... years ago it was coal, no wait few months ago it was because of strike , no wait sabotage... 😆🤣
_Business Imagine the term downgrading being used in the context of managing levels electricity reduction... We are deep in the shit...
_Business And the media is happy with this rubbish
_Business What happens when that diesel is finished?
_Business Since ramaphosa became president all media houses sponsored by George Soros are useless
_Business Thanks for NOTHING, media has played a great part in state of Eskom telling us 'it couldve been worse' 'no maintanence done' 'green is reliable' 'foreign loans are good' 'de ryuter is the man for the job' all LIES de rytuer has one of the worst professional track records on book!
_Business You arebin cahoots
_Business BS. So we can be told hours later of, 'generation unit breakdown' and other nonsense. We are not amused, impressed or fooled by this scam by De Ruyter, Pravin, Cyril & their foreign masters.
_Business nope. Sorry dont believe you
_Business Whether eskom burns the diesel or the consumers with backup generators burns the diesel in their backup generators... the diesel money gets spent anyway. Its probably more efficient to run it at utility scale though.
_Business How how in the hell does this work
_Business Our coal maybe going to save Europe from winter. We see you
_Business 💩
_Business ware “Thank”
_Business Two days later
_Business Whatever...CyrilRamaphosa and the myancat__ is useless
_Business They u ar not even questioning where and when the funding came from?
_Business F...ck Eskom.
_Business Who owns PetroSA?
_Business Zuma n his supporters at eskom won't like this
_Business Downgrade means fuck all. Even when its stage 1 we have no power in the evenings. I wish that kak would just blow up already and we can all share the misery.
_Business Mxm