[OPINION] The load shedding of last week was devastating. I have been told of companies forced to lay off staff because they simply couldn’t open their doors. - BusiMavuso2 Moneyweb Eskom LoadShedding
The load shedding of last week was devastating. I have been told of companies forced to lay off staff because they simply couldn’t open their doors. Those with generators couldn’t get diesel to fill them fast enough. Those on batteries found them running dead. Read: SA’s worst week of load shedding to hit economy hard This was obviously also crisis for Eskom, with the loss of generation capacity directly linked to illegal labour action accompanied by sabotage and violence.
They will each put up 100MW plants, adding 1.8GW in capacity. Only 11% of the 36 000 hectares available will be used by those first tenants so there is much more potential from this source. There is also an acceleration in other private producers registering new plants with the National Electricity Regulator of SA. The regulator has so far approved 18 amid an “avalanche” of applications. The last approvals were done in 19 days from receipt of the application.
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