SA will need 50GW to 60GW of new power generating capacity to be built over next eight to 12 years
I don’t think many realise just how much energy capacity SA needs to build. It is stupefyingly large.
Thanks to the affable Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha’s Twitter feed, I can tell you that on Friday night the grid’s available capacity was 25.3GW. Demand was 30GW so the country was on level 4 load-shedding. ..A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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