South Africa needs more renewable energy capacity

[Daniel Puchert]

Critical moment as South Africa faces another load-shedding crisis

South Africa's energy transition is entering a critical phase, and another energy crisis looms if the country doesn't add enough renewable energy capacity quickly.

Standard Bank and Cresco's latest Energy Market Projections report states that insufficient renewable capacity will be problematic when Eskom begins decommissioning its coal plants.

 

[Quicks]

Another year, another lost opportunity to fix things.

 

[Insint]

I don't know the details but why not just not decommission the beautiful, clean coal plants?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

no we don't, and we sure as hell didn't need a huge world bank loan to pay for it either, closest that money will come to "renewable energy" is to buy electric luxury cars for cadres

 

[Swa]

So about a whole Medupi or Kusile, the whole reason we are in this mess.

 

[Swa]

I don't know the details but why not just not decommission the beautiful, clean coal plants?

Because they're falling apart?

 

[Hemi300c]

Another year, another lost opportunity to fix things.

The warning signs started during the 1995 Rugby World Cup when there were outages - so 30yrs now.

 

[Swa]

The warning signs started during the 1995 Rugby World Cup when there were outages - so 30yrs now.

Don't think those were because of too little capacity. They did know by then though we would run out of energy by 2007 and did squat. You know the Chinese saying, the best time to plant a tree is a generation ago.

 

[Supervan II]

Critical moment as South Africa faces another load-shedding crisis

South Africa's energy transition is entering a critical phase, and another energy crisis looms if the country doesn't add enough renewable energy capacity quickly.

Standard Bank and Cresco's latest Energy Market Projections report states that insufficient renewable capacity will be problematic when Eskom begins decommissioning its coal plants.

Yes we need energy, like in power stations, not renewables. Renewables are just a crutch to assist power stations by reducing the load.

 

[Neuk_]

Critical moment as South Africa faces another load-shedding crisis

South Africa's energy transition is entering a critical phase, and another energy crisis looms if the country doesn't add enough renewable energy capacity quickly.

Standard Bank and Cresco's latest Energy Market Projections report states that insufficient renewable capacity will be problematic when Eskom begins decommissioning its coal plants.

Eskom seems to think just charging more for less will sort the situation out.

 

[Lupus]

Eskom seems to think just charging more for less will sort the situation out.

They take their cues from the ANC

 

[Neuk_]

They take their cues from the ANC

I should have been clearer, charging those that actually pay more while ignoring the non-paying and/or illegally connected masses, which is also an ANC 'policy'.

 

[Lupus]

I should have been clearer, charging those that actually pay more while ignoring the non-paying and/or illegally connected masses, which is also an ANC 'policy'.

100% though they do try with load reduction, which seems the ones who moan don't get why they get load reduced.

 

[Swa]

100% though they do try with load reduction, which seems the ones who moan don't get why they get load reduced.

If it was a fair system. Just permanently disconnect the ones not paying anything instead. But they'll never do that.

 

[Lupus]

If it was a fair system. Just permanently disconnect the ones not paying anything instead. But they'll never do that.

They've tried that, but remember who they are dealing with.
Engineers have actually been killed. What they need is to keep going with protection

 

[Bliksis]

What? Something happened recently? Or just another article? LMAO