Wind power helps lower load-shedding

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Wind power helps lower load-shedding

A series of winter storms helped reduce electricity load-shedding over the past week, allowing renewable energy plants at the coast to boost their supply to the national grid, according to an official at South Africa’s state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Temujin]

So, the solution for when there are no storms is to deploy helicopters to keep the power on

 

[Grieta Thanburg]

 

[Gordon_R]

Least informative article that I have read in a very long time...

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Least informative article that I have read in a very long time...

Something more interesting, wind power normally generates 200-400MW it was at 1700MW this week

 

[Lupus]

Least informative article that I have read in a very long time...

Cause it's mostly hogwash, renewables do not lower stages of load shedding as it's non dispatchable and can't be relied on

 

[Geoff.D]

The bigger joke is the Eskom Board Chairman blowing his trumpet about how successful they have been in improving the EAF when EVERYONE knows that the EAF peaks every single year in May or June anyway! What a laugh!

 

[wingnut771]

Cause it's mostly hogwash, renewables do not lower stages of load shedding as it's non dispatchable and can't be relied on

But contributes non the less.

 

[Lupus]

But contributes non the less.

But not to lowering the stage of loadshedding, may help them pump some water back