We all knew Eskom was in trouble, but it looks like things won’t be getting much better any time soon.
Load shedding has been suspended, but experts know that it will soon be back with a bang. Here’s how to keep your business going when the lights go out.
If you’re keen to avoid load shedding forever, you might want to consider going off the grid. Here’s how much it will cost, according to three local companies.
If you’re feeling economically drained, you aren’t alone. Here’s how the cost of living in South Africa compares to other countries.
Bloomberg compared the mileage and efficiency of various fuels, in order to determine whether electric cars really are the most eco-friendly way to travel.
South Africans are not going to be happy with the struggling power utility, which released its financial results today. It’s a trainwreck.
Brace yourself – the cash-strapped utility is implementing load shedding around the country, with today’s efforts kicking off at 11:30 this morning.
The City of Cape Town is looking to cover some additional costs, and it’s the people who will have to make up the difference.
Eskom has a knack for failing to deliver necessary services to the public, and now the Public Prosecutor has fired back with some stinging criticism.
As South Africa’s electricity prices soar, it’s in everyone’s interest to be aware of just which appliances are sucking the life out of your household.
Corruption-related strikes could see the City of Johannesburg and its surrounding suburbs plunge into darkness.
A week of electricity deserves nothing more than a national headline as Eskom attempts to encourage positivity with its epically failed brand.
The gangs of Cape Town are apparently rather enjoying the Eskom outages as no one can see them coming. So what is The City doing about it?
Those guys over at Eskom are such jokers. As if we’re not having to deal enough with greater Cape Town burning down, we now have to actually do it in the dark.
Here’s a lighthearted article about Eskom and what the world thinks of our little energy crisis.
Are you afraid of the dark? Sorry for you. Eskom says the darkness will carry on for a good few years. You can either invest in a candle factory or go Off The Grid.
I feel like this electricity problem is really bringing our country together: EVERYONE can talk about it, whether rich, poor, purple, green, jobless or MD. It’s great.
Finally, an easy way to organise your day around Eskom’s magnificent load shedding. Now you can still have the girls over for tea and actually have boiling water. #FunTimes
Time to schedule your life down to the tee, as one of the sources we take for granted in our daily lives gets sporadically taken away from us.
With Winter in full force in the Cape (even though it doesn’t seem like it most days), electrical bills are skyrocketing, with citizens claiming that their bills “almost doubled”, but why is this?
Eskom has announced that the electrical grid is under strain and South Africa is undergoing an electrical emergency with regards to a major spike in usage.
Why is the one size battery we use the most – the ‘penlight’ – so damn expensive? Surely something so heavily used would have come down in price by now? Well, they have. Try R169 for 48 AA batteries! DELIVERED!
When the last lightbulb goes out, and the last diesel generator is snatched away from you at the bombed-out Pick n Pay, how will you charge your laptop so you can go on Facebook and like statuses?
Eskom has the very serious problem of trying to increase electricity output while managing the already stressed grid. Of course, they could do this by discouraging electricity use, but that would cause shrinkage in production and consumption, hurting our economy. Lucky for Eskom, a South African company called Illuminate is producing a light that will take a load off our electricity grid without asking us to turn off the lights
Having just come out of winter, and with a decreased summer load on the national grid, you would expect that a little relief would be in order from our nation’s energy supplier – not quite. After lukewarm showers, green swimming pools and rooms lit with a single lightbulb, we’ll be finding out this week if we’re in for another increase in the price of electricity.
The world’s second most populous country has had more than half of its territory left in darkness after a massive failure by three of its major power grids, one failing for the second time in as many days.
Just as it’s hitting its annual flood peak, China has officially launched the last 32 generators at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, making it the most powerful hydropower station in the world. Earlier in the week, waterflow through the dame peaked at 70 000 cubic metres per second.
Eskom’s electricity generating capacity has reached record lows over the last week, with unplanned power outages reaching their highest level for the year on 3 May, and yesterday coming precariously close to that figure again. Considering winter’s only just begun, this is going to cause some major worries across the country.
In case the message hasn’t already been made abundantly clear, South Africa needs to embrace new energy sources – and quickly. Eskom can’t foresee our (yes, it affects everyone) power supply problem improving for the next five years.