{"id":283500,"date":"2018-11-12T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=283500"},"modified":"2018-11-12T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:36:16","slug":"eskom-warns-of-load-shedding-risk-across-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/283500\/eskom-warns-of-load-shedding-risk-across-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom warns of load shedding risk across South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has indicated that the risk of nation-wide electricity outages had increased significantly due to a sharp fall in coal stockpiles at five of its power stations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/investingNews\/idAFKCN1NH0S9-OZABS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>, Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said that the risk of cuts was not specific to one area but was a national issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The risk of load shedding is there and its rising,&#8221; Phasiwe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In total, we have 11 coal-fired power stations that have less than the required minimum amount of 20 days stockpile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of the 11, five of them have less than 10 days of coal stock and that is the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The embattled power supplier announced last week that it would be cutting jobs at a management level in a bid to further save on costs at the group.<\/p>\n<p>The power utility said that despite efforts to curb expenditure, its operating costs have continued to increase dramatically while output has remained largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, Eskom\u2019s Board of Directors has decided to review the company\u2019s organisational design to enhance operational and cost efficiencies. As such, Eskom\u2019s Board has approved a Section 189 process for its executive structure [F-Bands],\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these measures, electricity consumers can still expect steep increases in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom has applied for a 15% increase to tariffs every year for the next three years \u2013 but says that it is actually entitled to hike fees by 90%.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/279245\/eskom-says-it-is-entitled-to-a-90-hike-in-tariffs-analyst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskom says it is entitled to a 90% hike in tariffs \u2013 analyst<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom has indicated that the risk of nation-wide electricity outages had increased significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-283500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283512,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283500\/revisions\/283512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}