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DIESEL

Eskom’s desperate measures: Emergency reserves strained as power shortages persist

The improved load-shedding situation over the past month have been aided by solar photovoltaic energy and lower demand

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. (Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
DIESEL

Ramokgopa: Load-shedding helps Eskom not to overspend its diesel budget

Diesel is used to run the open cycle gas turbines which have been used to reduce the higher stages of power cuts This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers.…

  • Mandisa Makgakga
1 min read
KwaZulu-Natal residents who are unemployed, financially struggling and hungry have lambasted Eskom’s proposed 36.1% tariff hike. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
ELECTIONS

Stage 4 load-shedding returns as diesel runs out

Eskom said it would scale back to stage 2 outages from early Saturday for the rest of the weekend but was no longer able to compensate by burning open-cycle gas turbines

  • Emsie Ferreira
1 min read
Load-shedding has been a disruptor for households and businesses across South Africa. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ARNOT

Eskom resorts to stage four load-shedding

Stage-four outages will continue until Friday after the loss of two units during the night, and three in total at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power plants tripping

  • Emsie Ferreira
2 min read