This is what Jame Mackay, CEO of the Energy Council, says.
As South Africa approaches six weeks without the feared power outages, the warning is issued.
Mackay gave a media briefing on Thursday regarding the planned interventions aimed at resolving issues related to the focal areas of energy, transportation and logistics, and crime and corruption.
As to a recent market intelligence analysis by GreenCape, rooftop solar PV installations may increase to approximately 22 Giga Watts by the end of 2030 due to factors such as load shedding, rising electricity bills, and financing solutions.
According to Mackay, the grid’s improved performance is attributable to a decrease in tube failures.
“In time we would expect there could be spikes and tubes failures and the overall system remains unreliable, and we have not recovered reserve margin, so if there are failures we will end up going back to load shedding.”
According to him, load shedding won’t go away anytime soon.
“I believe that in 2025, we will most likely surpass the figures on this road. There isn’t yet a grid capacity limitation that may affect that. The grid capacity restriction turns into a problem for pipeline growth in the future, which is, in my opinion, handled outside of this load shedding critical path. Thus, this was a highly targeted piece of work that addressed how to stop load shedding,” he continued.
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