The Brackengate project shows municipal wheeling can work at scale, but it took longer and cost more than planned.
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Private wheeling projects have no regulated compensation if the grid operator curtails them because of oversupply.
Unbundling Eskom’s transmission assets into an independent operator is the durable fix. It must happen fast.
Battery storage planned for the next decade is being brought forward because the grid is throwing away surplus power.
Draft rules would bar trading bots from South Africa’s new wholesale electricity platform at launch.
South Africa’s private power boom has created a billing problem most finance teams can’t solve.
Government maps 95GW of offshore wind, but no law lets anyone lease the seabed yet.
No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
The unbundling now has advisers, a timetable and, at last, agreement between Eskom and business.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.