Home power backup systems
Electrical engineers answer your questions Eskom has made it clear that ‘load-shedding’ isn’t going to end any time soon. This reality, and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement during his annual state of the nation speech on 9 February 2023 that tax incentives for solar power use are imminent (confirmed in the Budget on 22 February 2023), means […]
More blackouts, fewer jobs, less tax revenue
When will government recognise that Eskom’s crisis is South Africa’s crisis? It is shocking that the South African government seems not to regard the now regular power blackouts lasting four hours at a time as the single biggest risk to South Africa’s economic growth and to its relatively stable young democracy. This can only exacerbate […]