I live in South Africa and we are facing a serious shortage of electricity supply. This is resulting in what are euphemistically called load shedding periods all over the country on a seemingly random basis. Load shedding is a sudden loss of power supply as far as consumers are concerned.
Yesterday a number of gold mines and platinum mines closed down because they could not take the risk of their underground workers being trapped in the bowels of the earth.
The government had admitted finally to poor planning on its behalf ... going as far back as 1997. It is a mess.
One potential solution in the eyes of the government is for consumers to install solar panels for heating water. Unfortunately it is almost certainly uneconomical for the avergae family to do this. The pay back period is simply too long.
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