Last year, Eskom completed only 5.3% of the 1,400km of transmission grid expansion it needs to complete each year to achieve its 2033 goal.
Eskom only completed three of the five transmission line expansion projects it had planned for the 2023/24 financial year, achieving just 74.4km of the 166km expansion it had in its pipeline for the year.says “massive” challenges are ahead for Eskom Transmission and the National Transmission Company of South Africa .
For reference, Eskom’s Transmission Development Plan aims to build 14,000km of 132kV, 275kV, 400kV, and 765kV transmission lines in ten years. In July 2023, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa revealed South Africa’s plans to expand the country’s transmission network by“That amounts to a 600% increase in transmission infrastructure over the next ten years,” the minister said.
In December 2022, he revealed that the failure to allocate 3.2GW of wind power through IPP bid window six was the result of aMontalto said it was critical that South Africa expand its transmission grid. Despite Eskom and the private sector urging the government to do so, this has never been done. Ramokgopa’s announcement about expanding the transmission grid by 14,000km by 2033 came after the NTCSA received itsThe licensing allowed it to become the system operator for the national grid and represented another step forward in Eskom’s unbundling.in January 2024, marking another key milestone of the power utility’s legal separation into three entities.
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