Eskom said that there would be stage 6 power cuts later on Monday following frequent power cuts over the past few months.But energy experts are arguing that this doesn't need to be the case, with some relatively easy solutions on hand.
New independent power producers joining the grid and the use of solar and wind on a large scale are just some of the quick fixes suggested to stop the blackouts. Independent consultant in energy research, Hilton Trollip, said that Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is compelled to make this happen and he needs to.
"What the regulations and the law says is the minister must either get a private IPP to tender or to exempt people from needing a licence," Trollip said."A national priority plan to deliver 10,000 megawatts of solar and PV and 5,000 megawatts of battery storage in two years. This would end load shedding in its tracks," Yelland said.
The country is set for stage 6 power cuts on Monday and pressure is building on the government to do something.
Another command council, we all know how well that worked out last time. Instead of fixing the problem, they targeted the people.
So there is nobody in Government that has the ability to stop the sabotage & corruption at Eskom_SA despite double the staff & less electricity output than 30 years ago UniqueSAProblem AskGregory MARIUSBROODRYK PigSpotter OUTASA wayneduv carteblanchetv
Keep the government out of any thing you want to succeed
And please, don’t let MYANC cadres form this command council, let us get real committed and experienced experts in this command council not lead by Gwede!!
CyrilRamaphosa's corrupt incompetent MYANC Useless GovernmentZA Command Council would be just a failed state JUNTA!!!
Stoopids! We don't need another command council to rip off money, do absolutely fnuck all and which can quickly be turned into a pandemic command council. Just get the right people in there with a private security army.
The President after speaking to his command council. 'Fellow South Africans all bottle stores will be closed with immediate effect because the fridges using to much electricity'. I thank you.
September 2015 – Dep President Cyril Ramaphosa say In another 18 months to two years, you will forget the challenges that we had with relation to power and energy and Eskom ever happened. He had been tasked by Cabinet in 2014 to turnaround SOEs and was reporting on his progress
Woolies chicken and Garage Pies ban loading, using too much electricity.
southy_citizen MYANC just step aside. No more unnecessary Command Council. Waste of time, resources, money & energy. Just hand over our country to competent & qualified people!
Why isn't govt urged to dissolve Eskom and sell it piecemeal to private energy companies who have the manpower and skills to do the work that's necessary? Oh because that would actually solve the problem.
After the covid council, it's a hard no
Not again FFS 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Oh Sod Off. Enough with the God damned councils already!
Nothing can go wrong if such a council is representative of our society such as a florist romantically linked to potbellied ANC big knob, a math-challenged EFF fighter with a Ph.D., a primary school teacher, or a New Castle prison inmate.
Lol.... the power crisis started 14 yrs ago but sure let's start a command council now
Just another worthless council when they know the answer is privatization
Aargh!, commission after commission, inquiry after inquiry, C'mon now.
For council substitute asylum. For members substitute lunatics.
Same clowns in the same circus. Nothing will change.
To pay millions to, only to tell us what we all know - SA's power grid is in trouble?
Another useless command council? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 The MYANC wishes they were the old Soviet Union 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Power command council 🙄
This is a global issue, not only in SA, stop blaming the government
Rotisserie chicken will be first on the banned list - it takes a lot of electricity to roast those.
Can we please also have a weekly family meeting to hear how we are all in this together, and how the power cuts are actually our fault?
If they are anything, which they probably will be, like the former National Corona Command Council, then dear South Africans, we are fckd.
For What….to ensure a faster complete collapse of the national power supply!?
With a new communist grip over the country. We will not be held to ransom
NO! Just re-call the corrupt ANC regime.
National Power Command Council…? Uhm, what of the current “task team” called the Electricity Supply Commission?
Is this a joke? All we need is another BEE Quota useless command council,ANC cannot fix it,when you gonna get that into your thick dumb sculls?
Eishkom is a disaster! 8+ hrs off today and still OFF. OFF. OFF. Went out 10pm last night unexpectedly came back on 10 am this morning! Time to stop 🛑 fiddling the switches and to address the problem
Here is to your command council 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
🤣🤣🤣🤣 like i said before, the panic has set in for the 'win stupid prizes awards.'
Oh for Fs sake. Under useless construction of a useless council
neeee man fok 🤔
Ramaphosa headed the last war room to deal with the crisis and look where it took us. Only solution is to remove all myanc cadres from the equation.
National power command? On top of NERSA, Dept of Energy, Dept of Public Enterprises, Eskom, etc? Sounds like an excuse of jobs for idle comrades. No, please no!
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
Lmk… another task team to do nothing
Oh f$k they will ban cigarettes and alcohol first ,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The command council will conclude that Eskom should be privatised... This is another clean method of privatisation
😂😂😂😂Viva Comand Council, Viva✊🤡🤡🤡
Why are we dancing around de Ruyter. Pravin must fire de Ruyter and Ramaphosa must fire Pravin and the ANC must remove Ramaphosa, and lastly other parties must remove ANC. Dankie !!!!
We don't need more councils or commissions or investigations, we need gov to roll up there sleeves get their hands dirty and start working!
Another proof of how incompetent government is
They not capable ….
No, how about you, EWN, ask your biggest shareholder, the NUM, to stop holding the country to ransom over ridiculous demands.
They don’t know HOW to cos the answer lies in a free capitalist market which allows those that CAN provide the service/product to do so. These clowns cut their teeth on communism. Amandla - spot the pun
No, no more councils. Just let competent qualified people take the lead and stop tying de Ruyter's hands let him do his job l
No. We just need a new government able to support Andre de Ruyter to fix Eskom; and capable law enforcement to deal with saboteurs and unprotected strikes within Eskom.
No we had a similar setup chaired by Ramaphosa before,did not bear any fruit this command council is a tool used by politicians to fool us into believing they're doing something to solve eskom crisis,I'd rather deal with 3 hrs of darkness not more lies
If the government had been capable of dealing with the power crisis we would not have had a power crisis to deal with. The ANC is not capable of doing anything other than steal. Interesting that a picture of the tax-draining but dysfunctional wind turbines is in the report!
No,urge government to voetsek so that a people who is qualified can do their jobs.
pointless...
Not another useless council 👎🏽🔂
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