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The National Energy Crisis Committee has identified structural faults in the design of new power stations, among factors contributing to the current electricity supply constraints.

Locals walk past electricity pylons during frequent power outages from Eskom in Soweto, July 3, 2022.Locals walk past electricity pylons during frequent power outages from Eskom in Soweto, July 3, 2022.

In a statement, the committee says among recent progress made include the removal of red tape for new generation projects. A new Ministerial determination has been published of new generation capacity from wind, solar and battery storage.

 

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The design flaws with the two power stations in question was identified 3 years ago, hence the constant breakdown, which also contributes to load shedding. They were meant to ease capacity issues. Here’s a link

Why suddenly a design fault, how long as has power station been operating, they're just looking for any excuse to demolish the system & get renewables...

koko_matshela come here

R 490 billion paid to contractors to construct faulty structures. Blacks never seize to excell in failure to govern. Such a simple task. Just get the paid contractor to reconstruct. But the kickbacks prohibit them.

'Historical' normally refers to 'inherited from previous regimes or governments' but the last 30 years has been the current gov. Western Australia was powered recently 78% by just rooftop solar. We could have been encouraging that 2 or 3 years back. See

This is such poor journalism. Yet again. Just making up stupid headlines.

So what?Why don’t they go after companies that built those faulty power stations and recoup the monies because Chancellor House was in cahoots with Hitachi to launder money and opt for short cuts now that’s why they are not mentioned

Our media will report this lousy info.. A useless bunch..

No shit... We all could have told you that

This what you did with SAA. Stupid findings

Surely it can’t be called a crisis if it’s been allowed to worsen over the past 15 years

desperation to avoid taking accountability,

Come Guys our Government is trying hard to fix this problem! Why don't you all just give them a chance! It's not easy to fix all those broken power stations those racists Whites left us.

They have been saying that four years past 6years and nothing has been done to fix those defects.

They will always find a way to blame the past.

Duh 🙄

This is what happens when a narrative is in charge Instead of competent people lol

No, it's because of incompetent leadership

Just smoke and mirrors

That is already know ... we want something new

Untruths!! The phasing in of the renewables is the cause..

So why not sue the people that designed those power stations

Where was the quality checks and balances during the design phase? The horse has bolted.

BIG LIES! PROBLEM IS RAMAPHOSA&ANC AS A WHOLE. WESTERN COUNTRIES ASKED ANC & RAMAPHOSA TO DUMP COAL FOR THE CORRUPT RENEWABLES&GAVE THEM R9BILLION. THOSE WESTERN & EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE TAKING THAT COAL FROM SA TO THEIR COUNTRIES FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION. WE'RE LAUGHING STOCK.

We needed a committee for this? My cat could have told you this.

Nonsense, old propaganda. There was no load shedding around 2015 to 2018 when cyril fired senior people at the utility in 2018 and appointed this useless committee to advice him, deployed a bank teller and taxi boss to run the utility.

Have you see this one MorningLiveSABC

So the new power stations that were built are a problem?🤔 I thought that information was available a long time ago?🤔

That is profound. We never knew that was the problem. Why did we not think about it?

Nothing new,,

People in government are not trustworthy, the committee formed starts today seeing faults in electricity generating structures today, why not in previous years. We are played we poor illiterate blacks of South Africa

After 30 years of B.E.E and looting what do you expect

wow - no shit! What a bunch of losers regurgitating everything we already know

This is nothing new

Excuses,what about the strategic embezzlement going on ?

Forgot to mention corruption and looting...

Wow, they really did choose the intelligent ones for this, didn't they!...

Let’s all be honest for a second - the problems with our power grid come down to sensational mismanagement of funds and lack of any future planning by the MYANC government. If you cannot see this then I think you sadly missed the point

Mxm

Excuses excuses

Medupi and Kusile.

Aren't they supposed to provide solutions? Identifying a factors isn't difficult. These have been known for years otherwise the people who were in charge should be tried for negligence.

This is very vague but okay it’s a start.

Bit late!!!!

How historical? Don't tell us about apartheid yamasepa mxim We know who failed to invest

NOW ONLY!

They didn't know about it?

What do you mean Historical‼️

Who do you blame for the specification/design and structural defects,

Groundbreaking

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