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Eskom clarifies permanent load shedding for South Africa...<br /><br />Power utility Eskom says that it has not announced permanent stage 2 and 3 load shedding in South Africa.<br /><br />Responding to various reports on Sunday declaring permanent stage 2 and stage 3 load shedding is hitting the country for the next two years, Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that this was a measure that was considered but ultimately rejected.<br /><br />“Eskom has considered implementing permanent Stage 2 and 3 load shedding to give more predictability to the public. As (chief executive) Andrè de Ruyter stated during the session, this is not possible as it would not guarantee that load shedding would remain at the lower levels,” he said.<br /><br />“(Headlines implying) there will be permanent stage 2 and 3 load shedding (are) inaccurate.”<br /><br />The apparent confusion over permanent load shedding emanates from comments made by Eskom chairperson Mpho Makwana who stated that permanent load shedding would have to be implemented to give Eskom room to conduct necessary maintenance to its power stations and to give some level of predictability or consistency to South Africans impacted by blackouts.<br /><br /><br />Meanwhile... <br /><br />AfriForum starts power company<br /><br />AfriForum is fed up with the “decay of the state” and is going to start its own electricity generation company.<br />Kallie Kriel, CEO of the civil rights organisation, says they are already engaged in formal discussions with South Africa-born businessperson André Pienaar – the founder and CEO of C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy.<br /><br />The long-term plan is to develop the first modular pebble-bed reactor in South Africa, using financing from foreign and local investors.<br /><br />A small modular reactor is compact enough to fit on a truck and can supply a town or city with power for up to 40 years.<br /><br />Pienaar’s companies are already building one in the state of Washington in the US.<br /><br />This new-generation nuclear power, together with renewable energy such as solar and wind power, could be the solution to South Africa’s power problems, says Kriel.<br /><br />AfriForum’s role will largely be to facilitate the investments and expertise needed for the development of the reactors.<br /><br />The idea is for the private sector to finance, build and operate the reactors as profitable power companies.<br /><br />The reactor plan is the third leg of AfriForum’s comprehensive power plan, known as Project AfriEnergie.<br /><br />AfriForum revealed to City Press’ sister publication Rapport that it had a plan to set up an electricity generation company.<br /><br />“AfriForum is not going to solve the problem alone. We don’t want to create an expectation that we are knights on white horses, but we want to be part of the solution.”<br /><br />He says they find inspiration in success stories from organs such as the Solidarity Movement, of which AfriForum is a part, as well as higher education institutions such as Sol-Tech and Akademia.<br /><br />However, AfriForum’s power plans cannot be financed through donations by members, as Sol-Tech and Akademia were.<br /><br />“Getting to Sol-Tech took 15 years. Akademia took 10 years. There are no quick fixes, certainly not for our power crisis, but we have to make a start.<br /><br />“We want our children and grandchildren to remain in South Africa – with electricity,” Kriel says.<br /><br />He believes that people who believe the ANC are grasping at straws.<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFdoloDKlrg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFdoloDKlrg</a>