When the independent panel report on Phala Phala released its findings at the end of last year, it was announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa would address the nation. It was widely expected that Ramaphosa would announce his resignation. And so we waited — only for the address to be abruptly cancelled.
Perhaps because that was not a crisis of his party’s making, though it later became one as the disaster relief money was stolen and not much of it reached the intended recipients. Since the licensing threshold was first raised to 100MW, the pipeline of private sector projects has grown to more than 100 projects with over 9,000MW of capacity. The first of these large-scale projects is expected to connect to the grid by the end of this year.
Eskom has developed a programme to purchase power from companies with available generation capacity through a standard offer. The first contracts are expected to be signed in the coming weeks. Policy decisions regarding the so-called “just transition” are not simple, but our current crisis is self-inflicted — mostly because the tenders which go along with coal are addictive.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
1) what windy areas do you know in SA, also a big threat to birds. 2)Solar is very expensive and takes up a lot of space and realistically speaking would not meet our energy demands. Fixating on fixing eskom, which if we dealt with corruption would be easy. Is viable or IPPs
Even if we could harness the wind and solar,the grid cannot accommodate the excess electricity. No expert,but read what an expert said re this.
When the government makes decisions it is really a thing of time being used to drag implementation of the decisions, however, when Mbeki said to mothball a few powerstations it hapoened almost overnight.
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