{"id":4365,"date":"2019-08-06T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"lessons-from-sa-power-firms-record-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/06\/lessons-from-sa-power-firms-record-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From SA Power Firm\u2019s Record Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Business Daily<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, South Africa\u2019s state-run electricity power utility,\nEskom, announced a record loss of 20.7 billion rand (Sh145 billion), an\nincreased loss of almost 800 percent from the 2017\/2018 financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at the rise and fall of Eskom, there are a lot of\nlessons for Kenya to learn from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, Kenya is currently forecasting over-ambitious\npower demand numbers informing it to unsustainable bring on board new\nindependent power producers an anomaly that will catch up with her in the near\nfuture just like Eskom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 2007, the South African government convinced Eskom\nthat there was a need to secure baseload by going for nuclear and coal options\nrather than renewable power generation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/Lessons-from-SA-power-firm-record-loss\/4259356-5224224-14qm9llz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Last week, South Africa\u2019s state-run electricity power utility, Eskom, announced a record loss of 20.7 billion rand (Sh145 billion), an increased loss of almost 800 percent from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}