The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole of Argentina, according to recent estimates from the University of…
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In light of the recent, cold, dark days, president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that he has lifted the threshold of…
UPDATE: Welp, it looks like it can, and will, get worse. Load shedding Stage 4 will kick in from 14:00…
Eskom has announced that this week’s load shedding, which kicked in on Monday, is set to last until 22h00 this…
Don’t take too much time deciphering which lockdown level and which load shedding stage South Africa is currently in, we’ll…
There’s mining for bitcoin and then there’s taking matters a little too far. A private equity firm based in the…
At the height of his career, the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla became obsessed with an idea. He theorised that…
Here we go again folks, back into the dark for another half a week. Eskom announced that Stage 2 loadshedding…
Don’t you hate paying for a service that can so easily be ripped away with little to no warning whatsoever?…
Last month, Eskom presented plans to change its electricity price structure to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. This…