Although South Africa needs emergency electricity badly — rolling blackouts have hobbled the economy for more than a decade — the Karpowership-SA deal has left many people bewildered.
A year has gone by since the South African Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced Karpowership-SA as one of the preferred suppliers of emergency electricity within the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme , and while the deal is still stuttering, it is not completely dead.
All in all, this might not bode well for those who are keen to see the tender shelved forever, but there are many reasons why the national government should really be looking somewhere else for electricity, as shown below. The Turkish group said it would place three power ships along South Africa’s coastline, at Richards Bay, Ngqura and Saldanha, to produce electricity from liquefied natural gas that would then be wheeled onto land and into the Eskom grid. The South African government was so keen to see the deal go through that a number of key local content clauses were waived.
For one, it is hard to explain how a 20-year solution came to be chosen and categorised as an “emergency” arrangement.
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