We’ve got shedloads* of electricity here in South Africa now:
Although that wasn’t always the case:
But while no-one is entirely sure whether this delicious lack of loadshedding is sustainable, or what the future holds, we’re just glad to be able – since 0500 on 25th March, at least – to have electricity.
So let’s enjoy it while it lasts and deal with the problems almost certainly mounting up under the carpet somewhere down the line, shall we?
Anyway, all of this is just a preamble for what I thought was a very interesting map that I was sent from the homelands. This is about where residential electricity comes from. It’s actually quite surprising that – given the vast difference between the the UK and SA (and not least in availability of power as mentioned above) – I would imagine that the most common source of electricity seems to be almost exactly the same.
Every day is a school day, hey?
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