Private wheeling projects have no regulated compensation if the grid operator curtails them because of oversupply.
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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.
Eskom wants to sell surplus power to bitcoin miners, but energy regulator Nersa’s paper leaves key questions open.
Outa welcomes the open-ended waiver but wants Eskom to justify registering systems that never export power.
South Africa’s private power boom has created a billing problem most finance teams can’t solve.
With petrol heading for a new record, do solar panels and an EV really work as a hedge against fuel and Eskom?
No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.
Sites, grid connections and power-purchase agreements are in place for 180MW, but nothing is generating yet.