Minister of electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said wind energy has a big role to play during winter
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The Western and Eastern Cape have been earmarked for wind energy because they have an abundant supply of the resource.saving the country from load-shedding, and that coal-fired and renewable sources were important to increase the energy availability factor from 52% to 60%. Renewable energy, including solar and wind, contributes 5 440MW to the grid, the minister said, adding that when renewables fail to provide the needed reprieve, especially during night peak , Eskom is forced to rely on more expensive diesel energy.
“So what is the message that we are conveying here? It’s that the intensity of load-shedding is coming down and that’s the point I make all the time,” he said.
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