Eskom expects 30GW of wind and solar to come online in next 10 years

[Jan]

Explosion of private solar and wind power for South Africa

Eskom is spending R178 billion on power lines to connect a glut of renewable energy generating capacity coming online in the next 10 years — more than two-thirds of its entire coal-fired generation fleet.

 

[Lupus]

And I expect the ANC to fleece as much as possible.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

if we are still here in 10 years and not living on bottle caps

 

[Ghost64]

R178 billion on power lines?

 

[pinball wizard]

Eskom is spending R178 billion on power lines

So, R20 million on power lines, and the rest into the pockets of cronies?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

So, R20 million on power lines, and the rest into the pockets of cronies?

+DA dancing selfies

 

[Lupus]

if we are still here in 10 years and not living on bottle caps

Please that was after a post apocalyptical nuclear war. Not the ANC government, we will be lucky to have bottle caps.

 

[B-1]

R178 billion on power lines?

I think they are going to run extension cables from China or something.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Please that was after a post apocalyptical nuclear war. Not the ANC government, we will be lucky to have bottle caps.

I'm hoping and dreaming. It's the way.

 

[Ghost64]

I think they are going to run extension cables from China or something.

Well that makes sense then, rather poor journalism...

 

[Johnatan56]

So, R20 million on power lines, and the rest into the pockets of cronies?

It's something like R30m/km for transmission lines supposedly, so 5650 * 30m = ~170bn (the 5650 was last November what they'd said they'd build, the 8650 they want to build now seems like an underquote).
That's US rates, but sounds about right for South Africa as well.

 

[pinball wizard]

It's something like R30m/km for transmission lines supposedly, so 5650 * 30m = ~170bn.
That's US rates, but sounds about right for South Africa as well.

Oh, I don't dispute that in the slightest.

What the anc will deliver is about 500 meters of power line and eat that 178 billion like a fat kid inhales McNuggets.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Oh, I don't dispute that in the slightest.

What the anc will deliver is about 500 meters of power line and eat that 178 billion like a fat kid inhales McNuggets.

all the while singing Shoot the Boer, and take the land and turn it into Mogadishu.
but hey, fun times ahead, especially just before elections, then they can go back to stashing money in Dubai.

 

[pinball wizard]

I mean, we have all seen the recent pictures of multi million Rand "stadiums" delivered by the anc.

Here's what I expect eskom to deliver here:

Broken, patchwork infrastructure, that doesn't connect to the power supply, and will probably be delivered in Nelspruit, when it's needed in the karoo.

 

[Lupus]

I mean, we have all seen the recent pictures of multi million Rand "stadiums" delivered by the anc.

Here's what I expect eskom to deliver here:

Should see the 4 million school they put up in my area.

This photo was 4 years ago, so imagine 4 years more growth.

 

[pinball wizard]

Should see the 4 million school they put up in my area.
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This photo was 4 years ago, so imagine 4 years more growth.

Exactly the basis for my faith in eskom

 

[Lupus]

Exactly the basis for my faith in eskom

Yup and in 2016 a Curro bought a piece of land and by the end of 2016 there was a school, this piece of land was cleared in 2014 by the government.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Expectation vs reality
Eskom... STFU and fix a generator, do your MOTHERFUCKING job and stop making press statements to try and bamboozle dumb voters

 

[SubtleBeast]

Oooh...the skepticism in this thread....

 

[now05ster]

Oooh...the skepticism in this thread....

We manage our expectations so as to avoid disappointment later on.