South Africa – the difficult emergence of a new power industry

Points of discussion

• Is it possible for nearly every major energy user in South Africa’s industrial heartland to switch its electricity consumption from coal-fired baseload on its doorstep to intermittent wind power wheeled in from the western coast or further afield?
• Can enough transmission and storage infrastructure be installed to balance the grid operating in a different way to how it was designed?
• How much more transmission capacity is needed? And can this be funded via the Just Energy Transition Partnership?
• Faced with these challenges can the South African government, the energy regulator Nersa, and Eskom find a way of leading the transition, or are they destined forever to play catch-up in a market that is reforming itself out of necessity, without strategic leadership or guidance?

 
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