By: Marcan

Marcan — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:31:15 +0000

As a whole not a bad summary. But too vague and evasive on the real underlying rot of this all: the total toxic mix of massive mismanagement, looting stealing, fraud and corruption at Eskom. Directly coming from political leadership or lack of it.
The article starts that we should expect still about 5 years of Loadshedding with the present rate of rollout of new energy generation. This can be enormously improved when the biggest bottleneck is tackled: the shortage of grid capacity. No major plan has come forward over the last half year, though the almost complete failure of BW Bidwindow 6 of REIPP orojects last Dec 2022 was solely due to grid constraints. Less than 1 GW of renewable projects was approved of a total possible 4.2 GW.
The Glasgow COP climate finance deal of $ 8.5 still has not been finalised, 20 months later. These funds could be used to let the PRIVATE sector, preferably not Eskom to start improving the transmission system at an unprecedented scale.
All these small scale solutions as MTN is now implementing with small turbines fixed to their towers is just muddling in the margin.
We need large wind farms with turbines of at least 4 MW each and large solar farms of at least 300 MW each, in large numbers.
Enormous grid improvements can unleash the power of private energy companies, in places where energy can be produced the best.

By: Barend Hawkins

Barend Hawkins — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:05:21 +0000

That is 20 years to late

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