Energy crisis committee's plan to "significantly improve" electricity supply in South Africa

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President Ramaphosa's plan to reduce and end load-shedding

South Africa’s National Energy Crisis Committee, a body run by the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa, expects record power outages to ease as measures put in place, including a new law to fast-track plant development, take effect.

The committee, of which several cabinet ministers are members, told business and labour leaders on Monday that a range of interventions have been made at a time when South Africans were enduring blackouts of as much as 12 hours a day.

[Bloomberg]
 
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Same all bullsh*t as every time. Not addressing any of the actual issues:
  1. Too many people working there
  2. Corruption on every end
  3. Theft and intentional sabotage
  4. Take away ALL perks for ministers until this is solved - if they want electricity, make them pay for it.
  5. etc.
As long as we have the next bunch of useless morons in a "committee" ...
 
Here we go again..

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The first of more than 100 privately owned power plants being developed will connect to the grid by the end of this year. In total, the planned projects could produce 9,000 megawatts, much of it for the companies’ own use.
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This has a decent chance of happening over the next number of years as companies are in essence building capacity to save themselves from loadshedding, but don't expect close to 9GW by the end of the year.

However, this also means less money from currently paying Eskom customers.
 
Or Ramaphosa could just delegate correctly. Fire Gwede Mantashe, appoint John Steenhuisen to minister of energy and tell him: you fix it.

Ramaphosa wins whatever happens:
If the DA is unable to fix it, they take the fallout.
If the DA is able to fix it, Ramaphosa can take the credit for organising the whole thing.

DA wins because they get to implement the policies that would fix the problem.
 
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I have a plan. Actually I have many. There are many important people in my plans. My plan has important things to do in it. I just have to get all the people together first into a committee, then argue about who is most important, so that they can make a task force to argue who is going to get paid for the things in my plan. I don't know what those important things are, that is why I have to get important people to argue about it. Once everyone involved is paid for the things they should do, the problem will be fixed. In 6 to 12 months.
 
JayN said:
Take away the red tape and costs of registering roof top solar and allow back feed into the grid - nominal return fee is fine.

At the moment valuable energy is being wasted by preventing a back feed to the grid.
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Mean I'm happy to feed excess solar into the grid and even willing to do so for free, but then the monthly charge should be dropped. No point in me needing to pay city a monthly "connection" fee and then basically get almost nothing in return
 
So the state will procure electricity from these privately owned companies.
And I am sure their will be no BEE requisites to qualify as a state vendor?

And these 100 companies have all their designs drawn up and ready to go?

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