2023-05-22 19:00:42
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South Africa’s state-owned electricity company Eskom, which has already been imposing 12-hour power cuts a day for months, has just launched an SOS to update South Africans:
Calib Cassim, interim CEO of the company, at a press conference in Johannesburg acknowledged: “We are going to have a difficult winter”, particularly “rough”
Eskom, which provides the vast majority of the country’s electricity, is weighed down by a fleet of outdated and failing coal-fired power stations. The company is unable to supply the level of needs and the arrival of cold weather will increase demand and therefore the extent of load shedding, to avoid a collapse of the network.
A “total blackout is “unlikely””, however tried to reassure Mr. Cassim, in vain!
For his part, Segomoco Scheppers, head of transmission at Eskom warned: “Winter will be very, very tight in terms of supply and demand. The winter outlook scenarios show that load shedding might intensify”.
Still, the coal-fired power stations that provide 80% of the electricity of the most industrialized country in Africa are in agony: too old, poorly maintained, their budgets diverted by corruption, they constantly break down. . The country has not known a day without a cut since the Christmas period, in the middle of the austral summer.
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