Featured in Beyond solar – 08-2023

Chaotic leadership leaves South Africans in the dark

Extensive load-shedding, lack of grid capacity, failing coal-fired power stations, lack of progress in clean power procurement, and even vandalism have prompted various South African government departments to take renewables generation into their own hands, seemingly without any overarching plan, as Bryan Groenendaal reports.

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pv magazine

25 Jul 2023

Minister in the presidency responsible for electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, visited one of Eskom’s coal power plants in March. | Photo: GovernmentZA/GCIS

With an electricity transmission crisis looming in South Africa, it appears that power generation project planners would be wise to conduct professional grid studies before spending big on development.While South Africans are bracing themselves for up to 16 hours of daily blackouts in the current winter, the energy crisis in the country – largely caused …

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