Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe announced last week that the government had signed 13 new energy generation agreements totalling just shy of 900MW as part of South Africa’s delayed 5th Bid Window in the Renewable Independent Power Producer Programme .came as the country battled with stage 6 load shedding and while it sat on edge waiting for power utility Eskom to cross the threshold to its highest-ever levels of rolling blackouts.
Of the 56 bids received for bid window 6, 23 were for wind projects totalling over 4,100MW of energy. None of these bids made it through, wiping off a potential 10TWh of energy production per year, according to the South African Wind Energy Association . “Having 3,200MW of unallocated slots for wind wasn’t expected, but what we are seeing is expected themes and blockages play out on steroids,” he said in athere is no grid to connect these projectThis is because the spare grid capacity that was shown by Eskom at the time of bidding in the two provinces – about 3,800MW – had subsequently, and legally and by the rules, been taken instead by private off-taker projects that could reserve the grid space faster than the cumbersome REIPPP bids.
“Project developers need clear communication in real time of changes to reduce risks in an already costly process,” it said.
What do you mean by stage 7? Had 3 hrs of electricity a day for the past week. Gat vol.
Eish, pic related man must fall on his sword