STUART THEOBALD: We need to build a stupefyingly large amount of energy capacity

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. ..

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