I read with disgust and frank disbelief Carol Paton’s remarks (“A sparkling new moment of opportunity (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2021-06-14-carol-paton-a-sparkling-new-moment-of-opportunity/),” June 14 2021) on the implications of the recent decision to increase the decentralisation of electricity generation.
For some years, I have been raising the concern that while greater use of renewables and decentralised capacity might be desirable in the abstract, the big problem is that it will worsen Eskom’s financial situation. In all those years, proponents of such a move argued the opposite: they claimed that, if anything, a move to renewables and decentralisation would improve Eskom’s operations and finances. ..
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