ANTI-NUCLEAR organisation Koeberg Alert Alliance (KAA) has battled with Eskom for the past two years to release its emergency evacuation plans for the proposed nuclear site at Koeberg – only to find that the document is outdated. KAA requested a copy of the emergency and evacuation plan for the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station through the …
Eskom is making progress with its planned maintenance programme but the supply system remains tight, the parastatal said on Friday. he power supply capacity to meet Friday evening’s peak demand was 32,513 megawatts (MW), more than the forecast 30,715 MW, Eskom said in a statement. It said current planned maintenance stood at 4,845 MW and …
Eskom said on Friday in its twice-weekly capacity update service that unplanned outages were 5,521 Megawatt (MW) on January 26 compared with 5,497 Megawatt (MW) on January 23, 5,373 MW on Jan 19, 4,274 MW on Jan 16 and 3,678 MW on January 13. The electricity generating capacity available to meet peak demand on January …
The appeal this month by Eskom to big mining companies to curb their electricity usage is a grim warning that government’s energy planning has failed and drastic policy revisions are urgently required, says the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry president Michael Bagraim said on Wednesday that government should …
Generator power output is usually expressed in VoltAmps (VA) and, occasionally, in Watts (W). When the numbers get into the thousands, these terms become kiloVoltAmps (kVA) or kilowatts (kW). For our purposes the rule of thumb is that 1000VA is about 800W. To convert from Watts to VA, multiply Watts by 1,25 (and vice versa). …
Are you thinking about buying an inexpensive generator? Cheap generators tend to make a lot of sense. Most people want to hang onto their money as long as they can nowadays, and with good reason. No one wants to lose what they have, but that is exactly what can happen if you lose power and …
Decades of neglected maintenance have caught up with Eskom, and a substantial amount of power will be taken off the (already tight) grid this summer as repair work is done . The capacity available to meet Monday’s peak demand is 33 776 Megawatt (MW). This includes open cycle gas turbines, which use expensive diesel and …
On January 9, 2012 peak demand of 30,282 Megawatts (MW) was met by available capacity of 30,742 MW or a margin of only 460 MW (less than one generating unit at a modern coal generating plant) or only 1.5%. The internationally accepted safe margin is 15% so Eskom as at one tenth of this level.
Power had been restored to the Bronkhorstspruit area after a substation was knocked out for two days by lightning, the Tshwane metro said on Wednesday. Metro spokesperson Pieter de Necker said power had been restored to all the affected areas of Bronkhorstpruit and Zithobeni township. The power supply to the area was being monitored. The …
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the utility that supplies about 95 percent of South Africa’s power, said the risk of a repeat of 2008 power outages increased as it took down more generating plants for overdue maintenance. “The current week is particularly challenging and we are concerned about meeting demand for electricity,” …
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