Author: 4Tress

The latest move by the government announcing plans to declare a state of disaster to help manage rolling blackouts, has South Africans shaking their heads in anger and skepticism. Opponents of the move see this as another means of impinging on citizens’ rights and gaining punitive control, while not doing anything meaningful to solve the country’s power crisis. The national power utility Eskom has been besieged by troubles since 2007. The entity has claimed that poor-quality coal is damaging power plants, resulting in sub-standard performances. Add to this litany of troubles, claims of fraud, corruption, funding constraints, bad planning, lack…

Since 2007, load-shedding has plagued South African homes and businesses, resulting in lost productivity, downtime, and damage to appliances. More importantly, it has undoubtedly contributed dramatically to the country’s general economic downturn. One thing has become clear, and that is that load-shedding isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon, meaning there is no time like the present to look at alternative sources of power. More sustainable solutions Unfortunately, the global pandemic exacerbated the situation, with the almost mass exodus to working from home leaving people with no escape from power cuts. And remote and hybrid working is here to stay, meaning both…