Living in a dream ?

[Justloadit]

So Europe runs out of power because their buddies ( America and Britain ) blow up the pipeline feeding them.
We also running out of electricity here at home.
Why doesn't Europe just install more wind and solar like we are basically being forced to do.
Isn't burning coal very bad for the planet, or does that only apply to SA ?

The main issue is transporting the generated electricity to the points of consumption.
Wind turbines are in the North Atlantic, and industry is mainly in the southern part of Europe.
Thousands of Kms away. The loss during transmission makes it unusable.
Solar is only generated for approximately 6 hours a day. It requires base load to be able to make use of it in industry.
Yes it can be stored, but right now the storage costs do not make this a practical solution.
There is a difference between 20kW batteries in a house, as opposed to 26Megawatt per hour for industrial use.
Industry requires regular peak supply in order to function, this is not so easy making electronic switches that work in Mega Amps to handle the peak demands.

[GCE]

So Europe runs out of power because their buddies ( America and Britain ) blow up the pipeline feeding them.
We also running out of electricity here at home.
Why doesn't Europe just install more wind and solar like we are basically being forced to do.
Isn't burning coal very bad for the planet, or does that only apply to SA ?

Don't think we been forced - we are being incentivized

Our power problem is lack of skills and will power to fix what is broken

Yesterday's Eskom notice stated 18 751MW of generating capacity on Breakdowns
26 101 MW available
2 407MW on planned maintenance which would include Koeberg

Total demand at 31 086MW

Loadshedding had to make up 5 121 MW of power

If half the breakdowns where repaired we would have excess electricity - The majority being coal

Eskom is killing itself and throttling power - The world has no part in that

We have 2 almost brand new Coal fired power stations that have under performed since inception - Who is at fault there ?

[Justloadit]

What we all tend to forget, that the load shedding is not only affecting users, but reduces ESKOM's income. No power, no income, so it is a double whamy.
I just can not understand the logic for not sorting out the problem.
But then again, the cartels are making money off the load shedding in the supply of Diesel and trucking expenses, so as far as they are concerned, load shedding gives them easy income, so why allow the utility to fix the problem.

[Isetech]

The sad aprt is that eskom is pulling down our infrasructure one day at a time.

We havent had load shedding in a long time, the other day they satarted load shedding in our area, now we have constant outages from damaged cables and transformer literally blowing up.

The question should be, how long can the transformers and cabling support load shedding, from where I am sitting, the grid is going to collapse before Eskom.

I would be interested to know the cost to the council (which will eventually ripple down to the consumer) for all these blown transfomers and cable faults.