This is the route South Africa must take to energy security
South Africans must reactivate our built and paid-for but dormant open-cycle gas turbine plants, which can be brought into service immediately and removed as quickly. At the same time, every bit of encouragement and support must be given to Eskom management to get rid of the maintenance backlog and maximise power availability. Simultaneously, government must cut every bit of red tape in the way of the private sector installing the 9 000 MW of clean, green renewable power that they are so dead keen to install at their own cost.
Concomitantly, private owners must be paid for the excess electricity that they feed into the grid from the solar panels that they now own. Also, idle pumped-storage systems must be brought back into service as the volume of electricity allows – and those that were meant to have already been built, constructed. Water-filled old mines must become the energy batteries that they are, and excess green electrons must be turned into green molecules, to a point where we never have to import oil or gas again. Instead, those green molecules in the form of green hydrogen must power our vehicles and our industries and green ammonia must power our ships. In this way, South Africa will be able to declare energy independence and look to export opportunity.
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