Expert weighs in on SA's ideal energy mix

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Expert weighs in on SA's ideal energy mix

South Africa’s economy has been hard hit by 15 years of load-shedding (rolling blackouts). The country’s coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures.

On the other hand, South Africa has committed, under the Paris Agreement, to transition to low-carbon energy generation technologies by 2050.

[The Conversation]
 
While the economy is suffering under load shedding

We have excess solar power not feeding back to grid

Paying grid feed back rates at the same rates people are buying electricity from eskom could take out one big waste of money on the eskom balance sheet

Open gas turbines that produce electricity at higher prices than it is sold for (salt may be wrong in this , getting good info problem)

Make the rate variable hence if grid feed back isn't needed you can limit it by making it less appealing

All these guys with battery backup can help shift the peak to off-peak

We have infrastructure that government just refuses to utilise, colour me surprised
 
ThinkCentre said:
I am not convinced that the electricity shortage is really that big. We have a corruption problem at ESKOM. We will only see a change once there is a new government in place and new people is running the show.
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Yea those diesel contracts that have to be pushed through in emergencies = questionable

and since they are crappy shedding dependant
 
Those experts will probably come to a conclusion that the best energy mix for South Africa is a serving of putu and chicken plus pelepele.
 
Aghori said:
Those experts will probably come to a conclusion that the best energy mix for South Africa is a serving of putu and chicken plus pelepele.
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We just wait for DailyInvestor's very own experts to post something to the contrary. Damn this place became pathetic.
 
'Expert'.... he's been reading for 20 years.... reading....
 
Hanno Labuschagne said:
Expert weighs in on SA's ideal energy mix

South Africa’s economy has been hard hit by 15 years of load-shedding (rolling blackouts). The country’s coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures.

On the other hand, South Africa has committed, under the Paris Agreement, to transition to low-carbon energy generation technologies by 2050.

[The Conversation]
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Wonderful plan in the PERFECT world, only trouble is this is SOUTH AFRICA land of the blind where the one eyed anc tenderpreneur is king . The perfect mix would be NO ANC GOVERNMUNT
 
What we need is a government that enables business.
Instead we have a bunch of USELESS thugs in charge lining their pockets at every TURN.
We don't have an electricity problem.
He have an ANC problem .
 
Fuzzbox said:
What we need is a government that enables business.
Instead we have a bunch of USELESS thugs in charge lining their pockets at every TURN.
We don't have an electricity problem.
He have an ANC problem .
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That sums everything up right down to its essence, the past 29 years of ANC rule, all of it.

Every electricity minister and his cat are just there to buy time for more looting by painting pretty pictures for the ANC voter base.
 
Hanno Labuschagne said:
Expert weighs in on SA's ideal energy mix

South Africa’s economy has been hard hit by 15 years of load-shedding (rolling blackouts). The country’s coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures.

On the other hand, South Africa has committed, under the Paris Agreement, to transition to low-carbon energy generation technologies by 2050.

[The Conversation]
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Sadly it is not the government that pays the bill or subsidises anything. It is the taxpayer.
 
ThinkCentre said:
I am not convinced that the electricity shortage is really that big. We have a corruption problem at ESKOM. We will only see a change once there is a new government in place and new people is running the show.
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Dont forget even with a change of government we will still have all the ANC CARDRES working at Eskom. So there will be a lot of work to do getting rid of them.
 
eitzen said:
Dont forget even with a change of government we will still have all the ANC CARDRES working at Eskom. So there will be a lot of work to do getting rid of them.
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Eskom had the wrong people in leadership positions – chairman

Eskom had the wrong people in leadership positions – chairman Eskom is making significant changes to address its dysfunctional culture and lack of leadership skills in key positions.
mybroadband.co.za

Major shake-up on the cards for Eskom workers – including performance incentives

Major shake-up on the cards for Eskom workers – including performance incentives Eskom’s board is looking at taking steps to boost staff morale, which it hopes will improve the performance of its power stations.
mybroadband.co.za
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
ZA's ideal energy mix:
- lots and lots of nuclear
- f-all ANC

you're welcome!
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Lots of nuclear will take ten years or longer. By then it will not be necessary cause there won't be an economy anymore. SA needs real solutions pretty quickly.
 
Zuma was a genius (the one and only time)! He wanted nuclear from Russia. It might have bankrupted us but we would have power.

He done it for all the wrong reasons, but we might have been on the way to new nuclear power (if the Russians built it).

*Tongue firmly in cheek*
 
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