Cabinet approves revised IRP

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Cabinet approves revised IRP

South Africa’s cabinet approved an updated Integrated Resource Plan — a blueprint for the development of electricity provision over the next two-and-a-half decades.

The plan underpins how the government will address the nation’s energy crisis, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said in an online briefing Sunday.

[Bloomberg]

 

[FiestaST]

 

[eepr0m]

Lol

 

[garyc]

should include 50 gigawatts to 60 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030.

That is equivalent to the nameplate capacity of our entire fleet of coal power stations, admittedly under ideal conditions. Will help if it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_South_Africa

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

That is equivalent to the nameplate capacity of our entire fleet of coal power stations, admittedly under ideal conditions. Will help if it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_South_Africa

Little possibility of that happening unless the transmission network is upgraded (there is already no grid capacity in the provinces with the best renewable energy prospects, such as the WC and EC).

 

[RonSwanson]

 

[dualmeister]

how the government will address the nation’s energy crisis

If only someone had planned ahead

 

[Mike Angelo]

Another plan...

 

[Gaz{M}]

I don't understand how they can extend the life of a 50 year old power station. None of those components are available anymore. It will all have to be custom made at Billions of dollars.

 

[Fuzzbox]

Its taken nearly 10 years to get the other 2 PowerStation's up and running.

I don't see any chance of success here while the clowns are in charge.

And what happened to all the other approved energy plans.

We supposedly have 55GW available of which 26 GW are offline most of the time.

 

[klipdrifter]

We've got a million plans, but also a million idiots who won't implement the plans.
The writing is on the wall, electricity will become a scarcity in our country unless something drastically changes which I doubt.

 

[wingnut771]

I don't understand how they can extend the life of a 50 year old power station. None of those components are available anymore. It will all have to be custom made at Billions of dollars.

If I was dictator, I would convert the coal power stations into gas powered CCGTs (more efficient than our OCGTs) leveraging the already installed transmission/distribution grid infrastructure already there. These can act like peakers to fill the gaps for the 50GW of renewables they speak about.

 

[trenton]

We've got a million plans, but also a million idiots who won't implement the plans.
The writing is on the wall, electricity will become a scarcity in our country unless something drastically changes which I doubt.

Become?

 

[Gaz{M}]

If I was dictator, I would convert the coal power stations into gas powered CCGTs (more efficient than our OCGTs) leveraging the already installed transmission/distribution grid infrastructure already there. These can act like peakers to fill the gaps for the 50GW of renewables they speak about.

Problem is how to get the gas there (inland). Also, there won't be much useful infrastructure besides the building shell and the grid access.

 

[wingnut771]

Problem is how to get the gas there (inland). Also, there won't be much useful infrastructure besides the building shell and the grid access.

Would need to build pipelines for sure. The grid access is worth billions and saves you building things twice. You can flatten the building, take everything away as scrap, then install the CCGTs.