Eskom Loadshedding South Africa by @bridgetti

Stage 6 - ? Load Shedding: Just a simple heads up I have repeated numerous times. Load Shedding cannot and will not dissappear if we grow the South African economy. In 2002 I was in the control room of Unit 1 at Koeberg when we reached an evening peak sent out of 36000MW. This was a new record for Eskom and everyone cheered. Not for long. The 1998 white paper on energy said that we needed to start building new baseload capable power stations by the year 2002. It was in 2002 when we saw the first load shedding of the potlines to the smelters in KZN on a regular basis. We reached the end of our tether under the Mbeki keep the lights on campaign. The media and the public was non the wiser. It was not Jacob Zuma that started the demise of Eskom. It was the ANC controlled national government that did not understand electricity production since the inauguration of Nelson Mandela in 1994. The script was written and the actors were cast. There was no turning back. The planned destruction of Eskom was on its way. Now we are lucky if we can generate 24000MW. This is 12000MW short of what we produced 20 years ago. Only the people of South Africa can turn this around by changing the rotten governance system and electoral system we were handed in 1994. #LiberateSA @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA @EskomSePush @Loadsheddingcom

STAGE 12 is Possible We will reach Stage 6 to 12 this winter if we do not stabilize the coal fleet. We will experience this annually in increasing severity if we do not construct new generating capacity that can carry Base Load. @Loadshedding_SA @EskomSePush @PresidencyZA