The president conceded in his official letter that last week's load shedding which disrupted business running has had a negative impact on the economy. South Africa has been hit by days of blackouts which dealt a heavy blow to economic activities and seriously affected people's lives. On a se...
supply chain chokeholds, junk food tax, electricity supply and load shedding, to name a few. These challenges are inflating operational costs and draining resources, while restrictions and regulations to control the spread of Covid-19 are simultaneously reducing customer footfall...
Summaryof cost of living inJohannesburg, South Africa: A family of four estimated monthly costs are17,630.1¥(43,686.9R)without rent (usingour estimator). A single person estimated monthly costs are4,990.7¥(12,366.8R)without rent. ...
WESTERN Cape (South Africa)SOUTH AfricaGAS as fuelLIQUEFIED natural gasDIESEL fuelsOPERATING costsDIESEL electric power-plantsLIQUEFIED petroleum gasPOWER plantsNATURAL gasAlong with the load-shedding problem that Eskom is having with the current generation syst...
Climate change, as a critical global concern, has fueled our efforts to address it through different strategies. In response to the critical worldwide issue of climate change, we suggested a Photovoltaic (PV) system at the National University of Sciences
Using liquefied petroleum gas to reduce the operating cost of the Ankerlig peaking power plant in South Africa Along with the load-shedding problem that Eskom is having with the current generation system, the operator is forced to use its peaking plants at Ankerlig ... S Clark,C Mcgregor,JL...
albopictus mosquitoes, Zika virus infections have been further spread by international travel and have expanded to large, heavily populated regions of South, Central, and North America (Bogoch et al., 2016). Correlations between the increase in Zika virus infections, the development of fetal ...
As various projects have demonstrated the value of renewables for reducing diesel, heavy fuel oil (HFO) and gas consumption, mining companies could now benefit from a significant cost reduction potential, said renewables research organisation ThEnergy MD Dr Thomas Hillig. “In the last few years,...
load shedding, rolling black-outs, and power-cuts across all South African borders. Telecom Service Providers have also reported a 40% jump in data usage (https://reut.rs/2Ti0e7D),and with no signs of this upsurge subsiding, mecha...
provide insights into the raw water quality of Bospoort dam in South Africa [12]. Through a comprehensive time-series analysis, various parameters were monitored, revealing that while most parameters remained within recommended threshold levels for the majority of the study period, conductivity, ...