Mismanagement, aging and problematic coal infrastructure along with a stalled renewable energy (RE) programme have fuelled regular power cuts since 2007. According to the new chief executive officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter, Eskom has set itself a target of 18 months to end the outages and improve the maintenance programme. The Council for Scientific and [...]
Eskom's debt gap How do we solve Eskom debt – the big SONA gap Nobody said running a country was easy. Or if they did, it could not be a serious reflection on what those at the helm of South Africa currently face. Even making the annual stock-take speech is delayed by over an hour [...]
Why solar and wind generation will better serve South Africa’s energy expansion planning 1. Introduction and Background This note summarizes a scenario-forecasting exercise for South Africa. It is extracted from a detailed technical investigation of the potential for solar and wind generation as an alternative to the proposed Inga 3 hydropower project. Inga 3 is [...]
Political Party Manifesto Debate at Community House, 25 April 2019 Election 2019 results show that the African National Congress (ANC) has maintained its position as the country’s governing party despite the party’s lack of focus on the critical issues of our time – namely climate change and environmental degradation – in their [...]
The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement programme - otherwise known as the REI4P - is a programme developed to encourage private investment to help develop the renewable energy sector within South Africa. After 4 bidding rounds and over R200 billion invested in the programme (which has added 6 323MW of renewable power to South Africa’s grid [...]
SOUTH AFRICANS NEED AN ENVIRO-CONSCIOUS GOVERNMENT On Thursday 25 April, a coalition of environmental and social justice groups and members of the public interrogated political parties – represented by Faiez Jacobs (ANC); Farouk Cassim (COPE); Beverley Schafer (DA); Jeremy Acton (Dagga Party); Jason Sole (Green Party); Shaheed Mahomed (Socialist Workers Party); and Ncedisa Mpemnyama (BLF) – in [...]
The following letter was written and submitted by Project 90 by 2030 to President Cyril Ramaphosa, with the endorsement of the Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA) members on the 19 February 2019 on ESKOM Restructuring and the lack of details. Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa, We write to you as the Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA) [...]
A group of civil society organisations has issued a challenge for Government to set itself decisive climate change objectives. The challenge was delivered during a media briefing held in Cape Town on 30 Jan, hosted by Project 90 by 2030 “Climate change poses an immediate and far reaching threat to people and communities worldwide and [...]
In September 2018, Eskom submitted their revenue application for FY2019/20 - 2021/22 to the National Energy Regulator South Africa (NERSA). NERSA published a call for submissions soon thereafter. Project 90 by 2030 puts forward the following submission for NERSA’s attention. While this submission will look into a number of issues we picked up in Eskom’s [...]
JUST ENERGY TRANSITION: Community Ownership, Jobs and the Future of Renewable Energy Systems To gather input from a number of stakeholders on this topic, COSATU, NALEDI and Project 90 by 2030 with the support of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, hosted a discussion event in Johannesburg on 7th August 2018. The discussion topic was informed by presentations on [...]
