{"id":13109,"date":"2014-02-23T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2014-02-23T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T10:45:51","slug":"struggling-eskom-supplying-power-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13109","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Eskom supplying power to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/morupule.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13110\" alt=\"morupule\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/morupule-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/morupule-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/morupule.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Thursday and Friday, Eskom declared a power emergency, but\u00a0is nonetheless diverting electricity to Botswana while South Africa struggles with rolling blackouts and loadshedding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Botswana is facing a supply crisis after two units at its only major power plant, Morupule, were shut down when the boilers malfunctioned, the Sunday Times reported. The plant&#8217;s output was thus halved and Eskom\u00a0forced\u00a0 to keep the country running.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eskom supplied 90% of the shortfall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is a serious problem but fortunately we have our region partners, such as Eskom, with whom we have a good relationship,&#8221; Botswana Power Corporation spokesman Spencer Moreri said at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morupule was designed to generate 600MW of the total peak need of 680MW, but could only deliver 300MW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eskom spokesman Andrew Etzinger told the Sunday Times Eskom expected Botswana to be self-sufficient, but because of technical glitches it supplied the country with a third of Morupule&#8217;s previous capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But that would be reduced to zero in the event South Africa was subjected to rotational load-shedding,&#8221; Etzinger was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Without supply from Eskom, Botswana would have had almost no electricity available, with significant harm resulting for that economy and for that of the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eskom also supplies electricity to neighbouring countries Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday and Friday, Eskom declared a power emergency, but\u00a0is nonetheless diverting electricity to Botswana while South Africa struggles with rolling blackouts and loadshedding. Botswana is facing a supply crisis after two units at its only major power plant, Morupule, were shut down when the boilers malfunctioned, the Sunday Times reported. The plant&#8217;s output was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Struggling Eskom supplying power to Botswana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[626,8438,456,8437],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-power-corporation","tag-eskom","tag-morupule"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/morupule.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}