Eskom to hike rates next year
Sowetan
While Dames said the situation remained difficult, he said it was different to 2008, when the country experienced load shedding. "We have said that we won't go back to the national power outages of 2008, but we cannot do it alone as Eskom, …

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Dark days ahead, warns Eskom
The New Age Online
We do not want to go back to load-shedding, but we cannot do this alone,” said Eskom chief executive Brian Dames. In January 2008, Eskom introduced load-shedding – planned rolling blackouts – based on a rotating schedule in periods where short supply …

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'Cut power demand by 10% or face blackouts'
Times LIVE
Eskom has warned that it might need to return to load-shedding if people do not trim 10% from the current energy demand. Eskom CEO Brian Dames said yesterday: "We do not want to go back to load-shedding but we cannot do this alone.

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Cut power to avoid blackouts: Eskom
Citizen
“We do not want to go back to load-shedding, but we cannot do this alone. We need to save 10% of our current energy demand or 3 000 megawatts from our demand to ensure that the power system can operate sufficiently,” he added.

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Dramatically reduce electricity consumption says Eskom
MyBroadband
We do not want to go back to load-shedding, but we cannot do this alone,” Eskom chief executive Brian Dames told reporters in Johannesburg. “We need to save 10 percent of our current energy demand and remove 3000 megawatts from our demand to ensure …

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Eskom: prevent load-shedding
Times LIVE
We do not want to go back to load-shedding, but we cannot do this alone," Eskom chief executive Brian Dames told reporters in Johannesburg. "We need to save 10 percent of our current energy demand and remove 3000 megawatts from our demand to ensure …

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Not just now. Now! Eskom urges SA to cut power use
Mail & Guardian Online
"We do not want to go back to load shedding but we alone as Eskom can't [prevent that], we need all South Africans [to help]," he said. Dames said that power constraints were not just a national issue, it's a global issue.

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Need to save 10% from 2007 base line - Dames
BusinessLIVE
Eskom currently has an average coal stock pile at the power stations for more than 40 days consumption, while in January 2008, when load shedding took place, it only had an average of 12 days. When flooding took place, as it has done now in Mpumalanga, …

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Can the telecom industry solve Africa's power problems?
BusinessLIVE
In SA, as an example, Eskom lacks capacity and has been forced to introduce “load-shedding” (a nicer word for planned blackouts). However, there are some very promising new developments in power production coming from an unlikely source: the mobile …

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Fix our water supply, please
Independent Online
“The previous year it was the electricity, now the water,” he said, referring to Eskom's load-shedding. “I'm guessing this December it will be both the water and the electricity.” Residents Melinda Williams and Carina van Heerden were without water for …

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