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Eskom 2024 Loadshedding Outlook
Daily Investor • 6 January 2024 Eskom releases 2024 load-shedding outlook – and it’s code redEskom’s system status outlook for 2024 shows that there will be a significant electricity shortfall for every week of the year. This means people should expect extensive...
Return to Stage 6 Loadshedding
Stage 6 load-shedding is back until further notice. Eskom has announced the return of stage 6 load-shedding due to the loss of generating units overnight. It has also not been able to replenish its emergency reserves. Cassim said in May there was an “extremely high”...
Eskom Smart Meters to control your electricity usage!
Smart meter load management pilot launched - here are the areas that will get it first. In an attempt to reduce load-shedding and restore MW to the grid, ESKOM is about to roll out Smart Meters nationally, at a cost of at least R16bn, over the next four years. Whilst...
SA braces for critical levels of loadshedding this winter
SA braces for critical levels of loadshedding this winter – here are the likely scenarios, including dreaded stage 8. 19th April 2023 By Hartmut Winkler BizNews. Over the past 15 years, South Africa has been experiencing a gradually worsening number of...
Eskom data warns of big trouble for SA
Eskom data shows why André de Ruyter warns about big trouble for South Africa Daily Investor 6th March 2023 New data shared by energy analyst Chris Yelland showed that Eskom’s energy availability factor (EAF) plummeted at the start of 2023, raising serious...
Rooftop Solar Tax Rebate
My Broadband 22nd February 2023 by Hanno Labuschagne Tax relief to soften the blow of load shedding and inflation Tax-paying South African individuals and businesses will be able to claim substantial rebates for rooftop solar and other renewable energy generation in...
ESKOM latest price increase
My broadband Jan Vermeulen 12th January 2023 Eskom gets massive electricity price increase! The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved an electricity tariff increase of 18.65%. This comes after Eskom asked the regulator to approve a...
Eskom plunges SA back into Stage 6 load-shedding
MyBroadband 7th December 2022 Eskom power cuts hit stage 6! Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 6 load-shedding from 12:00 (noon) on Wednesday “until further notice.” The state-owned power utility said this is due to a high number of breakdowns since...
Massive blow to South Africa this week
BUSSINESSTECH 5TH DECEMBER 2022 While South Africa’s political space sits in a state of turmoil, the country’s power situation has been there for a long time – and is expected to get worse when Koeberg Unit 1 is pulled offline this week. On Thursday, 8 December 2022,...
ESKOM scrambles to avoid higher stages of load shedding
Businesstech 21st November 2022 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has had an urgent meeting with Eskom board members to find money to buy diesel supplies in an attempt to avoid higher levels of load shedding. Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan met...
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