De Ruyter and Mantashe at war

[Hanno Labuschagne]

De Ruyter and Mantashe at war

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter is locking horns with energy minister Gwede Mantashe over South Africa's future electricity generation plans.

Sunday newspaper Rapport reports that Mantashe is trying to stop the Eskom CEO and public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan from binding South Africa to a radical shift from coal-fired power generation.

That comes after the announcement by US president Joe Biden at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) that several rich nations would provide funding of $8.5 billion (R133.5 billion) to South Africa over the next three to five years to speed up the country's move from coal to clean energy.

 

[Sapphiron]

 

[ConfusedR]

Get ready for the race card to be played, again, and/or more sabotage when the race card is not going to work.
And of course, the favourite, "It is Jan van Riebeeck's fault".

 

[Sapphiron]

We should start a campaign of mailing a lump of coal to Mantashe, but the post office won't deliver most of it.

 

[rietrot]

We just built 2 new coal plants. Our entire fleet is coal. Get what we have working before doing radical shifts away from it.

We are not bordering France or some other nuclear power nation that can help us out if there's no wind.

 

[W@NNIE1976]

Mantashe and Co chasing their own agenda…what happened to all the tendaprenure vultures?

 

[W@NNIE1976]

We just built 2 new coal plants. Our entire fleet is coal. Get what we have working before doing radical shifts away from it.

We are not bordering France or some other nuclear power nation that can help us out if there's no wind.

Lots of wind on the east coast

 

[rietrot]

The only good thing De rayter has done so far is reduce Eskoms debt. Going into a considerable amount of new debt for unreliable grren tech is stupid.

 

[rietrot]

Mantashe and Co chasing their own agenda…what happened to all the tendaprenure vultures?

This expansion to green tech is not just another tendaprenure venture?

 

[casperg]

The only good thing De rayter has done so far is reduce Eskoms debt. Going into a considerable amount of new debt for unreliable grren tech is stupid.

If Mantashe builds two new coal plants, it will also be more debt, but considerably more expensive debt.

 

[Sensorei]

Yes Mantashe, we'll just continue with Eskom being the world's most polluting power company even though it doesn't work half the time. Screw the environmental concerns.

 

[rietrot]

Yes Mantashe, we'll just continue with Eskom being the world's most polluting power company even though it doesn't work half the time. Screw the environmental concerns.

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Lol that's compete BS. No way eskom pollutes more than China.

 

[Pudding McTwinkle]

Lots of wind on the east coast

Yet how often are the wind farms outside of Jeffrey's and St Francis standing still...

 

[Sapphiron]

We just built 2 new coal plants. Our entire fleet is coal. Get what we have working before doing radical shifts away from it.

We are not bordering France or some other nuclear power nation that can help us out if there's no wind.

Do know that the renewable energy picture now, is very different from the renewal energy picture in 2010.

 

[Sensorei]

Lol that's compete BS. No way eskom pollutes more than China.

That data refers primarily to Sulphur dioxide which by volume is the most toxic pollutant. We use some of the dirtiest coal in the world. China switched to a combination of lower sulphur coal and installing desulfurisation systems quite a few years ago.

South Africa’s Eskom overtakes US, EU and China as planet’s largest emitter​

Eskom overtakes China, the EU, and the US to become the largest polluter

Eskom is now the world's most polluting company, according to a new study released by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).

www.powerengineeringint.com

 

[w1z4rd]

Good luck to Pravin and Andre. The RETards are firmly entrenched. Its going to take strong leaders to push through their corruption.

 

[RonSwanson]

Someone, anyone, please give Mantashe a lekker dik p0esklap so that his corrupt brain can reboot.

 

[Gazg]

Good.........Mantashe is a goon that is only there because of cadre deployment. He and others probably have vested interests in the coal mines and contracts that supply Eskom.

 

[trenton]

Mantache is untouchable, and the greatest threat to our survival. He knows where the bodies are buried.

 

[Thor]

Why is Gwede not in jail yet for the criminal he is