There is only one hope for ending load-shedding in the next two years — and it’s not launching a second Eskom, says energy analyst Chris Yelland.
Energy expert Chris Yelland does not believe that forming a second power utility to compete with Eskom is a viable solution to the country’s energy problems., Yelland explained that the only possible solution to South Africa’s energy crisis is rapidly building new renewable energy sources.
Ramaphosa said the plan for a second state-owned power utility to compete with Eskom was energy minister Gwede Mantashe’s suggestion, and he thought it was “not a bad idea”.Yelland said that some believe a solution to the energy crisis is to improve the energy availability factor of Eskom’s generation fleet from current levels of around 58%.
“In fact, if one is going to do the necessary work to achieve an improvement in the energy availability factor in due course, one is going to have to switch off generation capacity in order to do that maintenance.”“There is no spare generation reserve that we can call upon to run while we are doing this maintenance,” he added.
“And the new plants coming on stream are performing like old plants, and therefore energy availability factor is declining by about two to three percentage points per year.”
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