Mantashe wants to add 5,000MW to the grid through bid windows 7 and 8

[mylesillidge]

Mantashe announces plans to buy 5,000MW of renewable energy

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, on Tuesday, told Parliament that government will open a bid in July to procure additional renewable energy.

Mantashe, who was delivering his Budget Vote speech for the 2023/24 financial year, said Bid Windows 7 and 8 would each give 5,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy.

[SANews]

 

[Grieta Thanburg]

Jokes on him. We're on Windows 11

 

[Fuzzbox]

Why cant Ipps just connect to the grid.

Then these clowns don't have to spend a cent.

 

[kolakidd]

Why cant Ipps just connect to the grid.

Then these clowns don't have to spend a cent.

... because in many of the places where IPPs produce power there isn't the line capacity required to connect them to the grid... and legislation needs to be enabled to facilitate this... and surprise:

"While something had been sent to the national legislature, this failed to meet legislative drafting minimum standards. It’s understood how for the past couple of weeks Parliament’s Bills Office is panel beating this document to ensure legislative drafting and format compliance.

This amendment legislation is crucial to establish a transmission systems operator, but also to set standards, tariffs and norms like wheeling, or selling spare private power capacity to the national grid. Eskom may still construct it’s planned 8,500kms of transmission lines, but without the amended electricity regulation legislation, for example, spare power from embedded private power projects can’t really be wheeled onto the national grid, for everyone’s benefit."

From here:

BUDGET VOTES: Mantashe raises red flag over lack of grid capacity, re-introduces nuclear power to mix

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said lack of grid capacity was the ‘single-most challenge’, but didn’t propose remedies. Yet despite doubtful grid connectivity, Mantashe rolled out megawatts to be procured as renewables — and 2,500MW nuclear — in his Budget vote speech.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[AstroTurf]

Do they know that Karopowership is operated mostly by white people and they are going to really mess with Eskom's BEE rating?

 

[daveza]

government will open a bid in July to procure additional renewable energy.

July, why not tomorrow?

 

[Nerfherder]

Jokes on him. We're on Windows 11

also, there is not a clear upgrade path from win3.1, which they are currently on.

 

[saor]

July, why not tomorrow?

It feels a bit like they're pretending to pull their fingers out their ass...

To narrow the electricity supply and demand gap, Mantashe said his team would present an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to Cabinet soon.

The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2019 – the country’s blueprint policy for electricity generation – is currently under review.

“We intend to present the draft to Cabinet in the second quarter of this financial year.

So if I've got this right: A plan that's been wholly ineffectual has only now been reviewed and will be presented later this year only to be wholly ineffectual for the next 5 years. These plans mean fkall really if nobody has the will to carry them out properly.

 

[daveza]

They
don't
have
a
clue.

 

[daveza]

They also have electricity 24/7, so wtf do they care.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Mantashe announces plans to buy 5,000MW of renewable energy

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, on Tuesday, told Parliament that government will open a bid in July to procure additional renewable energy.

Mantashe, who was delivering his Budget Vote speech for the 2023/24 financial year, said Bid Windows 7 and 8 would each give 5,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy.

[SANews]

me:
Rewrite using proper English: Mantashe wants to add 5,000MW to the grid through bid windows 7 and 8

OpenNaai:
Mantashe intends to increase the grid's capacity by 5,000MW by means of bid windows 7 and 8.

 

[Adeptus Mechanicus]

July, why not tomorrow?

The pigs need time to procure new troughs.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Jokes on him. We're on Windows 11

a Peasant's OS.

 

[mpdjhb]

April 1st was last month.

 

[borro]

They also have electricity 24/7, so wtf do they care.

If we could somehow rectify this via time travel, we'd have power now )

 

[Vorastra]

a Peasant's OS.

"""I only install Arch so that everything fūckin breaks all the time"""

 

[Petec]

We should have been running on natural-gas to power, over a decade ago.
That was the main reason that Ankerlig was built.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Do they know that Karopowership is operated mostly by white people and they are going to really mess with Eskom's BEE rating?

Nothing that a brown paper bag cannot sort out

 

[RonSwanson]

It feels a bit like they're pretending to pull their fingers out their ass...


So if I've got this right: A plan that's been wholly ineffectual has only now been reviewed and will be presented later this year only to be wholly ineffectual for the next 5 years. These plans mean fkall really if nobody has the will to carry them out properly.

Take a look at the 2019 IRP. They planned to add 2600MW of renewables to the grid every year. How much did they end up adding?


Lekker BEE, AA and Transformation!

 

[ToxicBunny]

It feels a bit like they're pretending to pull their fingers out their ass...


So if I've got this right: A plan that's been wholly ineffectual has only now been reviewed and will be presented later this year only to be wholly ineffectual for the next 5 years. These plans mean fkall really if nobody has the will to carry them out properly.

Nope the plan is used so gwede can cock block any progress that doesn't benefit his retirement fund.