Independent energy expert Hilton Trollip says that Eskom’s current load-shedding woe is due to the failures of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy .
“We don’t have enough generation connected to the grid, and the power stations that are connected are old or badly designed,” Trollip said during an“The cause of that is the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, which is required by legislation to make plans well in advance to connect such generation to the grid.The Energy Regulation act specifies that nobody other than the DMRE can connect new generation capacity to the grid unless authorised by the department.
“The primary problem is to connect generation to the grid. The energy regulation act says nobody else may do that unless authorised by the department, and they haven’t done that for the past 12 years, and they don’t have any plans on the table to do that,” he said.Talk 702’s Ray White mentioned that energy minister Gwede Mantashe had planned to add private power producers to the grid, effectively bringing load-shedding to an end within three years.
He said South Africa would be drifting in and out of load-shedding at various levels in the coming years.“I can assure you unless they update those plans and start implementing them better, we won’t be out of the woods in three years,” Trollip said.
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