Tuesday, 9th October 2007 at 10:57 pm
Load shedding

therandtoday16.jpgIt looks like the inevitable has arrived, Today Eskom came out to ask Tshwane and other cities across South Africa to start conserving electricity in order to prevent power shortages across the country. This is certainly not a good sign for the economy. Businesses will be affected if power shortages are experienced and this will in turn have a negative impact on the South Africa economy.

The call from Eskom comes in the wake of the wet weather currently being experience in the Gauteng region. The heavy rains currently being experienced are affecting power supplies. Eskom say that load shedding will be rotated throughout the city of Tshwane for two to three hours per area.

This also fuels the speculation that Eskom are going to increase their tarrifs very soon in order for them to be able to fund the development on new electrical infrastructure in the country. The electricity supply issues in South Africa have to be rectified soon as the country is developing at a high rate and all this development needs a consistent supply of electricity. The consumer is the one going to suffer at the end of the day by being forced to pay high rates for electricity, but is it better to pay more or have no electricity?




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Comments

lehlohonolo lehasa on 14 April, 2008 at 8:34 pm #

Loadsheding is a very broad and complicated problem.As a future mining engineer I am spesifically worried about the effect it has had on the mining industry.Eskom together with government should really put their thinking caps on and do something about this issue.


Rander on 14 April, 2008 at 9:47 pm #

Thank you for your comment Lehlohonolo. We need people like you in South Africa to bring much needed skills into the lucrative mining sector and if there no electricity to drive the industry then skills such as yours would be a waste. Let us hope something is done quickly to solve this crisis.


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