Plan to add 3,800MW to the grid and pay estates and businesses R3 million for every megawatt saved

[Jan]

South Africa's plan to pay R3 million for every megawatt saved — and add 3,800MW to the grid

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says South Africa should be able to bring 3,800MW of additional generation capacity onto the grid in the near future, with 400MW expected to come online by the end of May 2023.

During a media briefing on the progress of the Energy Action Plan, the minister also announced incentives for companies and households that can reduce their electricity demands.

 

[Rickster]

Place your bets...

 

[Priapus]

Place your bets...

Let’s see if they even get the 400MW on the grid in three weeks time.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Coal truck drivers will be there very quickly to throw stones onto the solar panels

How dare you try and take their jobs away?

 

[Agent_Smith]

What's the big hullabaloo about 400MW? When we have a shortfall of several THOUSAND MW, what is a piddly 400MW going to accomplish?

 

[wingnut771]

Well, that was a lot of words that says nothing.

 

[wingnut771]

What's the big hullabaloo about 400MW? When we have a shortfall of several THOUSAND MW, what is a piddly 400MW going to accomplish?

Also, isn't it "up to" 400MW and does it work at night?

 

[r00igev@@r]

Yippee. More to steal.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

And I thought it was going to be a rough winter. 400mw to the rescue.

 

[semaphore]

Let’s see if they even get the 400MW on the grid in three weeks time.

Lets see if they get 40watts to the grid in 3 weeks.

 

[zll]

How do I get paid for reducing my electricity usage? As it stands we barely use anything. How do I get my cut of that R3 million?

 

[FlashSA]

R3000 per kwh? That's like 2000 times more per kwh than it costs Eskom to generate from coal. You may as well bring in those Russian generator ships for better bang for buck.

Or am I missing something?

 

[VooDooC]

Lets see if they get 40watts to the grid in 3 weeks.

Yeah my money is on loosing another 1000MW or so in the next two to three weeks.

 

[wingnut771]

R3000 per kwh? That's like 2000 times more per kwh than it costs Eskom to generate from coal. You may as well bring in those Russian generator ships for better bang for buck.

Or am I missing something?

It must be they are mixing up there GW and MW and kW again. Maybe its per GW for R3?

 

[Paulsie]

It must be they are mixing up there GW and MW and kW again. Maybe its per GW for R3?

Mayne our new engineer in charge doesn't know the difference between MW and GW? Eleventy twenty 30%??

 

[wingnut771]

Mayne our new engineer in charge doesn't know the difference between MW and GW? Eleventy twenty 30%??

Must be, I mean Eskom thinks Koeberg is offline.

 

[Syphonx]

How do I get paid for reducing my electricity usage? As it stands we barely use anything. How do I get my cut of that R3 million?

Comrades will be paid R3 million for turning off the lights in their garage. They need to eat.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

How do I get paid for reducing my electricity usage? As it stands we barely use anything. How do I get my cut of that R3 million?

I just switched off a light. What do you think that's worth?

 

[borro]

 

[The_MAC]

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