Eskom does not have to comply with air emission standards

When were the companies informed to comply with the new emission regulations?
Did they at least proof that they made an attempt to comply or did they simply ask for exemption when the deadline is upon them?
 
Anyone have a detailed list of plants and exemptions?
 
these new powerplants at Medupi and Kusile will no doubt burn mils of tonnes of coal, and produce horrendous amounts of bad gasses.
not sure how true it is :"The real scandal is that, according to the report “if the same amount of attention and resources were applied to renewable energy, we could develop five times Kusile’s proposed power generation capacity from clean energy sources with only 30% of Kusile’s external costs”, Steele concluded." ...http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/News/news/The-True-Cost-of-Coal/

wonder if anc even considered it, or they just went with the easiest, that would result in biggest profits for them?
 
CeeBee said:
these new powerplants at Medupi and Kusile will no doubt burn mils of tonnes of coal, and produce horrendous amounts of bad gasses.
not sure how true it is :"The real scandal is that, according to the report “if the same amount of attention and resources were applied to renewable energy, we could develop five times Kusile’s proposed power generation capacity from clean energy sources with only 30% of Kusile’s external costs”, Steele concluded." ...http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/News/news/The-True-Cost-of-Coal/

wonder if anc even considered it, or they just went with the easiest, that would result in biggest profits for them?
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While I agree kusile and medupi are over priced and ill conceived I'm always skeptical of what the likes of greenpeace publish. We could have built a few 600MW turbine power stations instead of these 800MW turbine power stations for far less money and time.
 
yeah gotta wonder what the greenies had their eye on? solar panels from gauteng to karoo, or windmills as far as the eye can see? generally these don't produce a helluva lot of energy, so need lots of them in unison
what other kind of 'clean' energy solutions are there, that the average new eskom worker won't effup in short term? nuclear? not cheap and risky
hydro? ocean wave tech?

edit... OK found it : solutions to produce power instead of coal
page 19, table 10 of http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/Gl...The case of Kusile_FINAL synthesis report.pdf

Wind, Concentrated photovoltaic, crystaline silicon PV, forest residue biomas, municipal solid waste (!), concentrated solar power.

"In other words, at its worst, it would be possible to develop no less than 500% of
Kusile’s proposed power generation capacity, assuming that renewable electricity generation
capacity was funded from only 30% of Kusile’s external costs."

methinks they overestimate eskom's abilities.
but then, as they also said, with these you could have created lots of jobs, knowledgeable people (again, eskom, anc?)
 
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