"Eskom’s Just Energy Transition and other JET plans will see Eskom decommission most of its coal-fired power plants by 2030"
By "decommission" you mean they stopped working altogether. This one I can believe.
The restructuring/unbundling of Eskom’s transmission division into a separate entity by the end of 2022.
Did you run that past the thousands of workers and unions who will burn you to the ground? Oh you did
The establishment of the new national transmission company for South Africa to support more electricity generators.
“more electricity generators “, you mean open gas turbines? Great idea guys, that's what we need more of, when you run out of diesel money we can use whisky to power them. The only thing they’ll be supporting is more money down the drain. Let me guess… proper BEEE success story in the making?
Changes to the Electricity Regulation Act to put in place the necessary legal framework for the above, recently published for public comment.
Everything’s always published for comment but phokol ever happens. There's my comment, can we get this done now?
Regulatory and pricing methodology changes underway in light of the above.
You mean charging us more and nailing those who go off-grid, yes, we know.
The establishment of electricity and balancing markets.
You mean, providing electricity, yes that would be nice, kinda your job. You have one.
Municipal generation and procurements from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) by metros.
Imagine investing millions or billions and then one day one of these geniuses in government decide to change the laws when they realize it's hard to steal from privateers. Also, a list of these go-getters would be nice.
Facilitating bilateral and multilateral power purchasing agreements for electricity wheeling and trading.
“purchasing agreements” Yes, so instead of just coal purchasing agreements that worked out so well for us we’ll now have tons of new corruption avenues.
A significant increase in IPPs due to bid windows 5, 6, and 7 of the renewable energy IPP procurement programme (REIPPP)
Yeah theoretical IPPs who provide power to a collapsing grid.
A gas-to-power procurement programme that will add 3,000MW of capacity to the grid.
“procurement”.. you mean bro-curement. Lekker vet corruption again that will amount to nothing but headline articles and heads shaking if anything ever comes of it.
Battery storage procurement by Eskom in terms of the Integrated Resource Plan.
Another “procurement” for something that will be hideously overpriced, installed by overseas companies and dismantled by our local geniuses.
Significant self-generation, embedded generation, and distributed generation by customers.
You mean, the same public-funded double tax we’re already forced to pay to save our own asses and the one that Eskom wants to nail you for not using or will be complaining about for the foreseeable future? Do we all get to pump additional energy into this half-century old grid?
