Last week, the Financial Times reported South Africa’s coal-dependent power grid is regularly failing to meet demand, requiring rolling blackouts to the extent of requiring an official declaration of a national state of disaster. The country’s power monopoly Eskom “has had to cut off swaths of customers for up to 10 hours per day in recent months […]
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