Energy crisis not unique to South Africa: government

Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele has moved to assure South Africans that the government is now doing something about the country’s 15-year-long energy crisis, saying that the “energy action plan” announced in 2022 is being implemented in earnest.

Load shedding has been a feature in South Africa since 2007, and the government has failed to remedy the situation over the last 15 years,Load shedding has got progressively worse, with 2022 being the worst year on record, and 2023 starting out with non-stop, high-stage load shedding every single day so far.However, he assured South Africans that work is underway to “ensure full and effective implementation of the Energy Action Plan”.

“The energy crisis we are facing is not unique to South Africa. There is currently a global energy crisis, and therefore we must work together to address the crisis,” he said.The relaxation of some requirements which will enable quicker procurement and the removal of licensing requirements for generation projects to enable private investment;

Additional focus is being placed on prioritising maintenance at the top six stations . These stations were specifically selected as they are amongst the highest contributors to unplanned load losses; “These examples of interventions that are underway demonstrate the urgency that is being put into fixing the energy challenges. These cannot be implemented overnight,” he said.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

This is no excuse

JvanLogg A state of disaster creates opportunities to bypass procurement processes. This can create additional opportunities for large scale fraud. How will Govt make sure that this will not happen? Contexts Eskom and StateCapture

Are we working an a collective blame narrative here.

You can VoetsekANC you and your chommies chowed all the SA taxpayers money…..

JvanLogg The reasons for it are unique. Sabotage, theft and not using freely occurring 'assets' solar, wind and hydro electric power.

For Pete’s sake!! Ours is!! Why don’t you admit your failures?!?

Seriously? Why do other countries have energy issues? Because of and incompetent, arrogant, useless, self-enriching government like ours, or maybe something else?

How does that help us? Is it supposed to make us feel better? Tell me, is there any other country in the world that has had consistent blackouts for the last 12 years? Is there any other country where the CEO of the national power utility is poisoned? Stop the political spin.

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