Alan Winde’s energy adviser Alwie Lester is aiming for Western Cape municipalities to generate 5,000MW-7,000MW of electricity within 10 years, well over the 4,400MW it currently draws from Eskom.
Upcountry visitors to Cape Town over the holiday season may have wondered why the city has less load-shedding than they’re used to.
If they arrived on the N2, they would have driven past the answer to their question: the Steenbras pumped storage hydroelectric system’s four turbines in the mountains above Gordon’s Bay can deliver up to 180MW of electricity to the city grid, enabling load-shedding to be reduced by one or two stages...
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