The minister says South Africans are understandably upset about high stages of load-shedding, but see themselves as 'an island'.
Gwede Mantashe has clapped back at criticism about load-shedding, saying he is not an engineer and doesn't pretend to be one. 2022 Windaba energy conferenceHe called on the public to give renewable energy projects time to generate power, saying load-shedding will not be resolved in a few days.
“When people want to have a dig at me, they say ‘Ja, we need more renewables and there will be no load-shedding'. I am not an engineer and I don’t pretend to be one, but I always tell them my experience is that when you deal with renewables, you give the contract [and] you have an agreement with them. You must give them time to build the plant to generate energy.
“So if you give a permit for any renewable project to come on the stream, don’t expect them to resolve load-shedding this weekend. They will build it, [it can take up to] 12 months or 18 months, and then [that energy is generated]. That is my experience. Engineers can correct me if I’m wrong.”
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