IT WILL be a miserable, damp and dark weekend for South Africans. - TopicsExpress



          

IT WILL be a miserable, damp and dark weekend for South Africans. And it wont end there. As Eskom sought to avert a systematic failure of the fragile national power grid yesterday by restarting load shedding, experts warned that it was going to get worse – before it got better. Deena Govender, of eThekwini municipality’s electricity department, said the week ahead looked to be very constrained. Eskom said the deterioration was caused by unforeseen technical problems in generating units. Compounding the power problem, the utility said, was that some of its powers stations’ pumping storage ran out of water and diesel. “As a country we dont have reserve margin so if units go out we don’t have any leeway. We are running everything we have at this stage, even the peaking plants. Earlier yesterday we had all our diesel power station reserve depleted.”
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 04:38:50 +0000

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