Gas offers ‘quickest fix’ for SA’s crippling power crisis
Benefits, including infrastructure that can be repurposed for production of green gases, outweigh current upheaval in market as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
15 March 2022 - 19:14
The quickest solution to SA’s energy crisis would be to build gas-fired power stations that could contribute to baseload power generation and provide a massive boost to the economy, according to Greg Nichollas, project development manager at Lesedi Nuclear Services.
SA is battling a crippling shortage of power as a result of its reliance on an ageing and unreliable fleet of coal-fired plants that is hampering growth and fuelling record unemployment in Africa's most industrialised economy...
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