Here we go again, word from Eskom is that loading shedding will resume again across South Africa at the end of March. Word is that the current electricity situation in South Africa is stable but still remains vulnerable. The large consumers of electricity in the country have apparently been doing a good job and have managed to cut down their power consumption by 10% whilst small businesses and households have not followed suite by cutting down their consumption by 10%. And now because of this inability to cut consumption by 10%, Eskom is going to ‘punish’ the small businesses and households by starting load shedding again. But they say that those who have cut consumption will be exempt. So I gather this means the big businesses and mines will be exempt as they have cut consumption by 10%.

Now what about the household who have done all they can to save electricity, surely there is no way they can ‘reward’ those households on an individual basis. It seems that from Eskom’s perspective, they are saying that households across the country are not doing enough to save power. There are still those households which have dozens of lights lighting their gates and walls at their house, their swimming pool pumps are always on and they never turn off their geysers. The electricity problem is a national problem and only the full cooperation of the whole country will help.

My main concern is that, if we are experiencing load shedding now what more when winter sets in and the consumption of electricity is even greater? We maybe in for a VERY cold and dark winter.

I was reading an interesting article on Fin24 which headlined: SA to spend R1.3trn on power. Now this is how much the plan to use up to 2025. So hopefully in years to come our children will not have any power problems but for us now we just have to live with it! Or should I say live without it (electricity)! A commenter said something interesting though at the end of that article: Wonder how much of these trillions will go towards Managements bonuses?