EDITORIAL: Electricity wheels are moving — but slowly
New projects will take years to come online, so let’s do everything we can to speed up the process
It’s been more than four months since the department of energy said last October that it would move to procure “emergency” energy capacity to meet the gap in demand it knew was going to arise. The idea was to look for short-term solutions that could be brought online in three to 12 months.
However, it took stage 6 load-shedding and almost two months before mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe finally acted to say he would procure more energy. Mantashe said he would make new energy determinations under the Electricity Regulation Act; initiate a request for information from the market on possible short-term measures; and he would meet the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) to get its concurrence on clearing the way for companies and mines to enable self-generation of electricity...
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