André de Ruyter warns that South Africa has a tough year ahead when it comes to load-shedding

[kota]

It's called the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. That's what sums up our government.

This 9000MW is a made up number by the way IMHO. There's no 9000MW "on the way" and no our grid hasn't been built yet to handle these projects.

Huge problem with Ramaphosa’s load-shedding disaster plan

President Cyril Ramaphosa neglected to mention a major problem that could thwart attempts to connect more electricity generating capacity to South Africa’s grid.

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Thanks for the article, so it sounds like new generation capacity equal to 30% of current generation capacity will be coming online in the next 18 months. But eskom is waiting for the government to take over their debt, so that they can have the cash to invest in the grid expansion. It's sounding like it's going to be another f-up in 18 months time...

 

[grok]

Thanks for the article, so it sounds like new generation capacity equal to 30% of current generation capacity will be coming online in the next 18 months. But eskom is waiting for the government to take over their debt, so that they can have the cash to invest in the grid expansion. It's sounding like it's going to be another f-up in 18 months time...

That is not how you spell bonuses..

 

[Moto Guzzi]

The Modern Corruption, IE the Parasitic Baggage that goes with the Lack of Maintenance and Faults, is so deeply abstractly embedded & poorly understood, that its irreversable in the short term, even maybe longer term(Hope not), and will take a might of practical convinsing minds(Common SEnse, Logic, Foresight=Anti Abstract Narrative Pushings) to overcome, and this is not just SA, the others fate are coming as well, just a matter of time, this as well as health is the result of a failed one world ideology partially excecuted by now..
The so called "3rd Generation" has its not yet known work to survive cut out for it.

 

[WollieVerstege]

There is something I don't quite understand and maybe someone knowledgeable on load shedding can clarify.

I recall reading articles last year that we couldn't award bids to quite a few renewable energy producer due to lack of capacity on the eskom grid. So besides the unreliable and insufficient generating capacity, we actually have another bottleneck which is the grid capacity.

In the article, eskom is saying 9000MW renewable energy generating capacity on the way, while CSIR is saying our grid is at full capacity, I don't recall seeing any new projects in increasing the grid capacity, and I assume increasing grid capacity is not quick nor cheap even if we increase it in steps, so is there already work being done on expanding the grid, or is this another "oops, we forgot about that" thing?

Does our grid currently have enough capacity to at least accommodate these 9000MW on the way?

The grid should be able to accommodate the full installed capacity at Eskom of around 53GW. The issue is where that capacity is available. Most of the locations where renewables are being installed do not have axcess grid capacity available.

 

[AlphaJohn]

There is something I don't quite understand and maybe someone knowledgeable on load shedding can clarify.

I recall reading articles last year that we couldn't award bids to quite a few renewable energy producer due to lack of capacity on the eskom grid. So besides the unreliable and insufficient generating capacity, we actually have another bottleneck which is the grid capacity.

In the article, eskom is saying 9000MW renewable energy generating capacity on the way, while CSIR is saying our grid is at full capacity, I don't recall seeing any new projects in increasing the grid capacity, and I assume increasing grid capacity is not quick nor cheap even if we increase it in steps, so is there already work being done on expanding the grid, or is this another "oops, we forgot about that" thing?

Does our grid currently have enough capacity to at least accommodate these 9000MW on the way?

Need to move distribution infrastructure

 

[kota]

The grid should be able to accommodate the full installed capacity at Eskom of around 53GW. The issue is where that capacity is available. Most of the locations where renewables are being installed do not have axcess grid capacity available.

So they talk about building new capacity, but don't talk about building more infrastructure required to transport these capacity. Sigh...

 

[WollieVerstege]

So they talk about building new capacity, but don't talk about building more infrastructure required to transport these capacity. Sigh...

This seems to becoming a general trend in SA. More "security estates" are built, but no attention is given to infrastructure like roads, sewage, storm water, schools, etc.