Eskom nearing deals for substation battery storage systems

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Eskom close to sealing deals for massive battery storage system

Eskom is close to concluding agreements with suppliers to provide around 1.4GWh of battery energy storage.

During its State of the System briefing on Thursday, the utility revealed the tender for Phase 1 of its Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) project had closed, and the management had finished considering the bids.
 
alot of ppl forget that Since 94 the way things work in our country is TENDERS. Eskom has artisans, Technicians and Engineers. Yet they use TENDERS and Bureaucrati bullshit to line the pockets of the those that would rather see it implode
 
Reaper_666 said:
alot of ppl forget that Since 94 the way things work in our country is TENDERS. Eskom has artisans, Technicians and Engineers. Yet they use TENDERS and Bureaucrati bullshit to line the pockets of the those that would rather see it implode
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There has always been things that a company cannot do internally, so there has always been tenders. It is not necessarily tenders that are a problem but tenders for the sake of tendering even if there is sufficient capacity and resources within the institution.

Perhaps the difference is that previously the institution would have one trusted supplier or service provider with a recurring contract for years, it was good in a way that the service provider would develop the right skills and competencies over years to do whatever they were contracted for but bad in a way that one company would become very rich with the monopoly on the contract.

Breaking the monopoly to introduce more players was a good thing, overdoing it by tendering for everything and giving contracts to clueless people was a bad idea.
 
SA would be a great place to test out industrial sized mechanical storage.

That way they wont find their way onto the black market...
 
So basically piss all energy that won't even stave off stage 1 loadshedding.
 
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