{"id":27559,"date":"2023-08-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2024-10-13T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:34:37","slug":"are-things-getting-worse-at-eskom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/are-things-getting-worse-at-eskom\/","title":{"rendered":"Are things getting worse at Eskom?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The lights are going out, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa finally put his foot down and announced a plan to vanquish loadshedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe as a nation will have to grit our teeth as things get worse, while we all pull together to achieve this one unifying strategic mission,\u201d respected energy expert and big picture thinker Professor Mark Swilling warned in an op-ed in May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One year on<\/a>, Ramaphosa\u2019s Energy Action Plan has chalked up some wins \u2013 rooftop solar, licensing, and laying the groundwork for a competitive energy market \u2013 but coal is not one of them: The performance of the coal fleet is getting worse. We\u2019re burning diesel like there\u2019s no tomorrow. And instead of Swilling\u2019s \u201cunifying strategic mission\u201d, there is a sharpening battle over the future of coal, where the debate is increasingly unhinged from the facts. Explore the data here<\/a> or get a snapshot of where we are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read our original reports<\/strong>

The collapse of old king coal (part 1)<\/strong><\/a>

The collapse of old king coal part 2: how unrealistic targets created an energy crisis<\/strong><\/a>

The collapse of old king coal: the war over the future of coal begins (part 3)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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