Eskom blows so much on diesel, it can build six huge solar farms with that money every year

Renewables and peaking power plants play different roles in providing power. What this article should have had was a comparison of the amount of power that the diesel plants produce and compare that to the power that Eskom would be able to get from solar + battery farms during the same time periods.

There's no point having 2GW of solar plants if you need dispatchable power at night and the plants are providing 0MW. It's not a straight forward swop between them, which reduces the usefulness of the article.
 
Well we don't have clever people working at Eskom for the past decade or two.
 
Pity this is not pushed to the forefront of people's attention.

But hey:
'Load shedding isn't the end of the world' - ANC's Sylvia Lucas
 
Unfortunately, that farm will not be able to provide 0.01% of the electricity required.

Why have they not started building 20-30 new coal-powered stations already?
 
rvZA said:
Unfortunately, that farm will not be able to provide 0.01% of the electricity required.

Why have they not started building 20-30 new coal-powered stations already?
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Or ccgts
 
sjm said:
Renewables and peaking power plants play different roles in providing power. What this article should have had was a comparison of the amount of power that the diesel plants produce and compare that to the power that Eskom would be able to get from solar + battery farms during the same time periods.

There's no point having 2GW of solar plants if you need dispatchable power at night and the plants are providing 0MW. It's not a straight forward swop between them, which reduces the usefulness of the article.
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Sounds like too much hard work, it's much easier to throw a sensationalist article out there and let the masses go wild.
 
Lupus said:
Or ccgts
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The chicken and the egg. Build the pipelines first or build the CCGTs first? I would build the CCGTs on the ground of the old coal power stations seeing its close to Moz and the grid is already there, but then the coal cadres and thousands and thousands of truck drivers can't eat and this is why we can't have nice things.
 
Some of the lynchpins of the ANC patronage network has Sasol on a very profitable leash.

The tankers come. They offload diesel to Sasol. And then Sasol sells it to Eskom. A total monopoly. The profits taken are ridiculous.

Eskom even still has to pay the fuel levy and taxes we pay at the pump. Gweezy's gang collects billions in profit every year, and the government collects billions in fuel levies and taxes. And then they increase income taxes to pay large bailouts, often to buy more diesel [sic]

Eskom is not allowed to import directly. No, that would touch the wrong pockets.

www.citizen.co.za

Eskom's application for diesel wholesale licence rejected | The Citizen

The DMRE said Eskom's application to import its own diesel fell short of the requirements, but it could appeal the decision to Gwede Mantashe
www.citizen.co.za www.citizen.co.za

Mantashe is extremely evasive every time the question comes up. But it's clear he likes the situation just the way it is.

Whatever else - Solving the country's energy crisis is not a priority for the ANC. They're more interested in developing and maintaining ways to exploit the crisis.
 
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