Tag Archives: power cuts.

Power cut

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2010

Just a quick quota photo effort from me this evening. We had a power cut at work this afternoon which left all of us playing catch up – due to a fault at the Koeberg Switching Station, apparently. Someone evidently switched it off.   Add to that the oppressive heat (43°C when I left work), [...]

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South Africa’s electricity crisis

By 6000 | 6000 | January 18, 2008

Woo. “Crisis”. There’s a strong word. But yes, that’s what it is. It’s a complicated story, but it boils down to this: years of poor planning and underfunding, coupled with a healthily growing economy simply means that there isn’t enough electricity to go around. And therefore, in order to protect the national grid from damage through [...]

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