We cannot afford to let our panic to keep the lights on overshadow the need to scrutinise our energy future, especially when we’re importing power. Read more in this letter to the editor.
that drives investment, creates jobs, fosters critical skills development, helps us to curb climate change, and kicks our struggling economy into gear.
The last thing we should be doing is taking uncalculated risks on mega-projects that we can’t control or manage -— as Kusile and Medupi have horrifyingly revealed with crippling cost and delivery consequences. A case in point is the Inga 3 hydro-electric power agreement that South Africa concluded with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014: expensive and unreliable hydro power that will take at least 15 years to come online, not to mention the inevitable delays, cost overruns and corruption opportunities.
But the kicker is that this imported power will cost local consumers at least R400-million more a year compared with locally producing 2 500MW of renewable energy. Late last year Energy Minister Jeff Radebe made moves to double this amount, at a further unknown total cost, and without Cabinet or parliamentary approval.This article is only available to
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