IS POWER FAILURE GOING TO FAIL YOU?

It’s only a matter of time until your area or neighbourhood is left in the dark. Power cuts or load shedding as it’s better known, affect us more than we think. These power outages don’t just switch off the geyser so we don’t get hot water in the morning or can’t go to school or work because there is no iron to iron our clothes. Power cuts in actual fact impact us upon an economical level whereby local businesses and large manufacturing company’s such as Daimler Crystler South Africa, Mercedes Benz South Africa and not forgetting Volkswagen South Africa in Uitenhage, you also can’t make mention of these big manufacturers making mention of the mining sector. Power cuts, if not prepared for, can bring the economy of a country to its knees, this may also in future lead to big companies downsizing to cut the loss of profits made during their slow productive period during the blackouts. This worsens the country’s rather poor employment rate.

On the other hand, with a weakened rand South Africa’s economy cannot afford to have  any more blackouts as this amounts in billions of rands being lost. The evidence of this can be seen in 2008 where billions were lost in revenue, and business information systems crashed due to these incidents. However Eskom states that it is under a lot of pressure and cannot keep up with the current rate of usage of electricity, but, we must bear in mind that the percentage rate of electricity  will see households and business paying through their noses for electricity as it will be raised to 16% by the year 2015.

Medupi Power Station, this is supposedly Eskoms back up power station. It has taken authorities such a long time to build up and with copious amounts of money being spent for the development of this project which is still not complete, even to date.

                     

The crisis in our country is not getting any better and business need to go out there and get themselves backup systems to store information or documentation, they also need to have operating generators for when days get dark literally and figuratively.