PODCAST | The ministry is standing in the way, says energy expert

Reliable power generation continues to be a drag on the SA economy as power utility Eskom implemented stage 6 load-shedding for only the second time in more than two years earlier this week.Trollip explains the issues facing Eskom and how current load-shedding is likely to have come about.

In stage 1 electricity cuts, Eskom takes out 1,000MW from the national grid, while in stage 2 that increases to 2,000MW. At stage 6, which would generally leave customers without power for half a day, 6,000MW is cut from the grid. The utility has largely blamed strike action by workers at its power stations for reducing its ability to meet demand on the national grid.

Trollip says the current situation is unsurprising given warnings about the country’s needing to add more capacity to the grid from as early as 1998. Without this investment, ageing infrastructure, poor decision making, bureaucracy, corruption and slow adoption of new technologies have all worked to create the untenable situation that the country finds itself in.

Topics of discussion include: explaining what is meant by stage 6 load-shedding, reasons for the current spate of rolling blackouts, new power generation technologies, ways in which the state can fix issues at Eskom, and the growing need for independent power production.

We are not dumb, the ministry is doing great, they must block that shit you are trying to implement, IPPs are disastrous to any functioning economy, USA and Germany epotomize that

The illiterate ministry on such matters is standing in the way.

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