Category Archives: ESKOM

Engineering Dissent: Unbundling – Are the Oligarchs Coming for Eskom?

re posted from                                 HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

Are these policies, such as the handsome loans for new transmission lines that will span 60% of the distance around the earth, paving the way forward for the oligarchs to buy Eskom for scrap, as the very institution that once worked efficiently when … Read the rest

Anglo-American Financial Circles are Asset Stripping South Africa

Excerpts from interview with Hugo Kruger

“There is a reality that Eskom is under-performing, that is correct….

Government have not maintained the coal fleet for a very long time and now it seems to be that they are privatizing Eskom, this is privatization, they just say it isn’t,  but it … Read the rest

COP 28 Will Not Stop Africa: The World’s Next Economic Miracle

re posted from                            EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW

This article appears in the December 22, 2023 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

COP 28 Will Not Stop Africa:
The World’s Next Economic Miracle

Dec. 6—Africa will not accept the Malthusian demands of the billionaires who jet to United Nations “climate”

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Kelvin Kemm: DA’s Mileham spewed political propaganda – nuclear power is cheaper, safer, faster

Source: BizNewsTv

DA’s Mileham spewed political propaganda – nuclear power is cheaper, safer, faster.

18 Dec 2023

Nuclear physicist Dr Kelvin Kemm was so incensed with DA shadow minister Kevin Mileham’s “political propaganda” on BizNews TV last week, he insisted on setting the record straight. This the globally respected engineer Read the rest

SOUTH AFRICAN COAL, CLIMATE CHANGE & R1,5 TRILLION DODGY WESTERN LOANS

Source: Zimasa “mooshtaffa” Vabaza

The story of Coal in SA is the story of Africa’s most industrialized economy fighting for its competitive industrial advantage in a world that is saying we should stop using our most important resource because they spent the last 100 years building their economies while messing Read the rest

Opposition to the Unbundling of Eskom: Submission to Parliament South Africa, ELECTRICITY REGULATION AMENDMENT BILL (B23-2023)

re posted from                                    HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

I oppose the current move by the South African Government precisely because I have studied the history of unbundling in the developing world, the success stories, and the failures.

For instance, the World Bank’s comprehensive assessment titled: Rethinking Power Sector Reform in the Read the rest

UNDICTATED: SA’s lost nuclear opportunity ready for comeback, can end blackouts

re posted from                             BIZ NEWS

In this episode of UNDICTATED, Kemm offers context into why nuclear went off the rails in SA – and why the country may finally be ready to cash in on its world-class expertise and in some areas, global leadership.

UNDICTATED: SA’s lost nuclear opportunity ready

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Koeberg Unit 1 is safely and successfully synchronised to the grid

re posted from                             HUGO KRUGER SUBSTACK

Cape Town will now enjoy another 20 years of reliable baseload capacity that is generated from zero carbon Nuclear Power. The anti-nukes are not going to like it, because there is now no more need for extra transmission lines (that will be the Read the rest

Electricity should be sold as a service. Time to shift to new paradigm

please read this excellent  article on the most important issue of electricity as a service vs a commodity

re posted from                            IOL

The consequence is that partial off-grid solutions (such as a solar panel on a residential household that draws electricity from Eskom at night) might appear more affordable than Read the rest