Wits University engineering lecturer Neil Thomas Stacey weighs in on the Ramaphosa administration’s declaration of a national state of disaster over South Africa’s energy crisis.
, but it would still take considerable time for alternative supplies to be secured and used. The other potential advantage would be that the declaration could be used as a justification to disregard emissions laws that prevent boilers being operated at higher oxygen content, which lowers the rate of sulphidation corrosion.
The rapid and accelerating installation of private solar panels already threatens Eskom’s business viability and the revenues of municipalities that heavily depend on electricity sales. Feed-in tariffs offer a quick fix for this issue, by turning private solar into a source of cheap energy for the grid.
One could argue that bundling them into a disaster response plan would worsen their long-term viability because, firstly, it would place them under the management of temporary structures that will in principle later be dissolved and because it will loosen financial oversight. This would likely mean secure power supply for hospitals and water reservoir pumps, mainly, along with key points in the food supply chain.
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