Rain, loadshedding
Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claidheamhmorIt's been raining almost constantly since last week Wednesday. It's wonderful, but some people are getting a little tired of the damp and mud. Not me though! I love it. I've run in the rain a couple of times, and that's pleasant.
However, because of Eskom's corruption and incompetence, a third of the country's electricity grid is out of action (because of failures, wet coal, maintenance, delays, etc). This means we're experiencing loadshedding, or rolling blackouts, of 4 or more hours per day. It makes us so angry, especially since it's not a new issue. In theory, it's on a schedule so that we can plan, but it's not always accurate (the amount of loadshedding changes based on the available supply). Apart from us at home, it had a huge knock-on effect of small business, who either have to not trade, do things manually, or run their own generators. At work we have a diesel tanker parked outside to keep our generator tanks full.
However, because of Eskom's corruption and incompetence, a third of the country's electricity grid is out of action (because of failures, wet coal, maintenance, delays, etc). This means we're experiencing loadshedding, or rolling blackouts, of 4 or more hours per day. It makes us so angry, especially since it's not a new issue. In theory, it's on a schedule so that we can plan, but it's not always accurate (the amount of loadshedding changes based on the available supply). Apart from us at home, it had a huge knock-on effect of small business, who either have to not trade, do things manually, or run their own generators. At work we have a diesel tanker parked outside to keep our generator tanks full.