between 4,000 MW and 6,000 MW
. Eskom also needs to retire 22,000 MW of badly ageing coal generation capacity over the next 13 years, if not more. So, by the time the new solar projects come online, they will only meet around 3% of the current energy supply gap and 0.5% of the future energy supply gap we face. One big obstacle to Mantashe’s emergency program has been the corruption allegations around the powership projects, which make up the majority of the program. Apart from being snared in legal and environmental challenges, the polluting powerships are also proving to beRather than throwing in the towel on the failed powerships, Mantashe seems dead set on pushing it through. One wonders if it has to do with who will benefit from the R200-billion-plus project.
Sadly, that’s not the only energy plan that Mantashe’s DMRE is failing to deliver on. The DMRE is alsoon its outdated Integrated Resource Plan of 2019, which is meant to determine new energy that should be bought online in South Africa. Even before it was written, the IRP was out of date. The IRP aims to build lots of polluting, outdated, and/or expensive projects, such as new coal, gas and nuclear. Most of those would take many years to come online, leaving us stuck with load shedding well into the future. That is, if they ever get built in the face of
GlenniePaul The usual BS from people who have absolutely no clue. What SA needs is a Free Energy Market!
And Pravin stays!
LoveSwaziland We need something done Today!! Not tomorrow or the next day.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 scare tactics, why is renewable energy failing in Europe and countries like came running for our coal
We want nuclear energy.
Peterman43 If you can organise a kick back from the sun for GwedeMantashe1 , it will happen in a week.
Our current one will never go!
South Africans must return to a culture of paying for the electricity and water they use. Municipalities must likewise pay the same utility companies. This, and having government with integrity (not stealing or wanting bribes to do their jobs) that makes a country successful.
We don't need a new minister of energy, we need a completely new, capable and competent government.
Yep. GwedeMantashe1 is out of his depth and compromised
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Renewables are not the fix for SA's load-shedding woesRenewable energy is today what the personal computer was for the 1980s: the next frontier. kimkoo Genuine question, kimkoo. Do you think that the newspaper should make it clear that the narrative of this 'opinion piece' conveniently benefits the interests of one (or more) of your PR company's clients? Does the Sunday Times not have to clearly mark this as an advertorial? (PS. I really do hate the term).
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