Tag: eskom
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The Power Cut
Every now and than people in South Africa experience power cuts. There are several reasons for it; the main one is that the national electicity supplier Eskom does not have enough capacity. They are working on it but that will take several years. Second in line is a backlog in maintenance of the different distribution…
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(Solar) Power to the People
At last; after one year in Stanford we found a reliable supplier/installer (SolarMax in Kleinmond) for a solar heating system. A week ago they installed the panel etc. and despite the merely cloudy/rainy weather we only needed 8.5 hrs of electricity from the grid for heating the water during the first 7 days. If the sun shines…
Life in the Overberg 