Ekurhuleni soon receiving 150-680MW renewable power from IPPs

[Jan]

Goodbye Eskom — Ekurhuleni signs 46 independent power producers

The City of Ekurhuleni will soon receive between 150 and 680 megawatts of additional power from renewable energy sources.

According to the municipality's annual report for 2020/21, it awarded 46 tenders to independent power producers (IPPs) to generate additional renewable energy for the city.

 

[Lupus]

Wouldn't say good bye eskom cause if it's only 150Mw they'll need to supplement it from somewhere

 

[lkswan747]

Hell this is very surprising as the electric infrastructure is in such disrepair that parts of Kempton Park recently suffered prolonged outages (Days) and again last night till this morning! How about replacing the crappy infrastructure as well, this way the targeted users will get the benefit of the renewable energy.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Wouldn't say good bye eskom cause if it's only 150Mw they'll need to supplement it from somewhere

In the Republic of Cape Town, we have seen the benefit of small scale supplements to our feed during load shedding.

Why we are a level lower, and often can skip load shedding.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Wouldn't say good bye eskom cause if it's only 150Mw they'll need to supplement it from somewhere

200 should be able to offset stage 2...

 

[Lupus]

200 should be able to offset stage 2...

If there is 200MW and if Eskom doesn't step in like they did with Kelvin here in JHB

 

[Creag]

Slowly, slowly the bigger players are reducing their dependency on Eskum. Nice!

 

[Solitude]

Here in Roodepoort we've heard about this thing called electricity.

 

[Lupus]

Here in Roodepoort we've heard about this thing called electricity.

It comes every so often

 

[zolly]

Goodbye Eskom — Ekurhuleni signs 46 independent power producers

The City of Ekurhuleni will soon receive between 150 and 680 megawatts of additional power from renewable energy sources.

According to the municipality's annual report for 2020/21, it awarded 46 tenders to independent power producers (IPPs) to generate additional renewable energy for the city.

How were they able to push for this in 2017 while Cape Town's been trying to get the rights to source their own power for even longer than that? What am I missing?

 

[ToxicBunny]

How were they able to push for this in 2017 while Cape Town's been trying to get the rights to source their own power for even longer than that? What am I missing?

I have a feeling a fair chunk of the details are being left out of this announcement...

 

[TheChamp]

How were they able to push for this in 2017 while Cape Town's been trying to get the rights to source their own power for even longer than that? What am I missing?

They were still not able to source their own power in 2017 if that's what you are wondering , but I don't think there was anything stopping anyone from planning ahead since it was clear we were already heading towards this direction.

 

[system32]

The City of Ekurhuleni will "soon" receive between 150 and 680 megawatts of additional power from renewable energy sources.

Soon... IBIWISI

Ekurhuleni weren't even load shedding until Eskom called them out in 2021.

 

[Swa]

Soon... IBIWISI

Ekurhuleni weren't even load shedding until Eskom called them out in 2021.

Nope, they were but not according to schedule. Now they won't have to.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Hell this is very surprising as the electric infrastructure is in such disrepair that parts of Kempton Park recently suffered prolonged outages (Days) and again last night till this morning! How about replacing the crappy infrastructure as well, this way the targeted users will get the benefit of the renewable energy.

Five days without power was no joke, then again for a few hours this Friday past and another 18 hours last night. 2022 has been off to a BEAUTIFUL start.

 

[The_MAC]

So who would these 46 IPP's be? They are mentioning rooftop panels. Does this mean that a Property Company for example, with 5 rooftop installations would be considered an IPP?

I hope they have signed some SLA's with them.. Reliability, Day/Night time availability etc.

 

[envo]

I read "tenders" and stopped reading.

This project will take 20 years and be 88 billion over budget. Good luck with that siht

 

[envo]

Any municipality with their own sewage treatment plant can, for quite cheap, convert it into a biogas generator to supply electricity locally, or at least supplement the grid. Solar is only one cog in the wheel, same as Wind and Water.

Electricity generation from biogas of anaerobic wastewater treatment plants in Brazil: an assessment of feasibility and potential

Electricity production is essential for development, but it is necessary to reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. Alternative energy so…

www.sciencedirect.com

Biogas From Wastewater Treatment Plants

www.veolia.com

Laat jou poephol die ekonomie bietjie help

Just too bad they don't want municipalities to be in charge of their own power generation, because if they were, they could very easily convert their sewage treatment plants to biogas producers who could in turn be sold to biogas electricity plants or even install their own.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

They were still not able to source their own power in 2017 if that's what you are wondering , but I don't think there was anything stopping anyone from planning ahead since it was clear we were already heading towards this direction.

CoCT was small scale then as they already had existing surge demand infrastructure in place for decades.

 

[Skerminkel]

Gweezy is going to be pissed.