Rolling Blackout in South Africa due to Wind/Solar/Battery Follies
South Africa has had terrible rolling blackouts, in part because they shut down a 1,000 MW coal plant to get less than 370 MW (nameplate) in variable, intermittent renewables, supplied by self-serving rich countries, i.e, Europe and US, using the World Bank as their hand maiden.
MSN (7/25/23) reports:
"Minister of Electricity Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has gone against the government’s official position on the Just Energy Transition (JET) strategy and said, the decommissioning of the Komati power station was a mistake.
The coal-fired Komati power station in Mpumalanga - which had nine generating units, with a total installed capacity of 1,000 MW - was shut down in October 2022, after reaching the end of its operational life after 61 years, to make way for renewable energy as part of the JET.
The power plant will be converted into a renewable generation site powered with 150 MW of solar, 70 MW of wind and 150 MW of storage batteries through a loan from the World Bank.
South Africa is so screwed by being indebted to foreign banks, and have rolling blackouts
Speaking at a Dialogue hosted by Standard Bank Group Corporate Citizenship last night, a frustrated Ramokgopa posted videos of himself on Twitter saying, international investors (in Europe and US) had put pressure on the South African government to quickly transition to lower carbon technologies at the expense of energy security.
'If I had my way, we’d go and restart the units at Komati.
We closed the power station, which was the best performing power station at the time we closed it,' Ramokgopa said.
'And because a bank loaned us money, we are getting 370 MW (nameplate) of intermittent electricity, but we removed 1,000 MW of STEADY electricity, and got rolling blackouts
The Standard Bank Dialogue engages role players on finding collaborative solutions in moving from energy instability to energy certainty."
Ramokgopa bucks official line on Komati power station decommissioning.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/ramokgopa-bucks-official-line-...
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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