The risk of higher load-shedding stages, including stage 8, is still present in South Africa despite Eskom’s better performance during winter so far.
Professor Hartmut Winkler warns that the country is not yet out of the woods and load-shedding could still escalate to higher stages.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has granted a license to the National Transmission Company South Africa to operate the country’s transmission system. This move is a major milestone in Eskom’s split into three entities – Generation, Distribution, and Transmission.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has warned about potential electricity shortages globally due to increased power demand from the growing adoption of electric vehicles and power-hungry technologies like artificial intelligence.
Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter revealed in his book “Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom” that middlemen and tenderpreneurs cost the power utility billions of rands annually without adding any value.
South Africa plans to expand its power transmission network by 600% over the next 10 years to address the ongoing power shortages and support its decarbonization goals.