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Key Strategic Points
- 1 IRP 2025 requires 2.2 trillion rand investment to add 105 GW capacity—equivalent to rebuilding Eskom 2.5 times
- 2 Energy mix includes 34 GW wind, 25 GW solar, 16 GW gas, 5.2 GW nuclear plus storage
- 3 Current grid remains 83% fossil fuel dependent; low-carbon energy accounts for only 17%
- 4 Eskom achieved 105 consecutive days without load shedding by August 2025; energy availability factor reached 64–75% in winter
- 5 Diesel peaker plants cost 6 billion rand from April to October 2025, highlighting need for reliable baseload power
Notable Quotes
“You can't smelt steel with a press conference. You can't run a mine on a cloudy, windless week.”
“Intermittent power needs a partner that shows up on demand every hour, every day. That's called base load power.”
“Get power right and everything moves. Prices ease, factories hum, investors return, our engineers stop leaving and start building here in South Africa.”
“Power first, politics later. We need to burn our coal responsibly. Drill gas. Drill baby drill. And we need to build the reactors.”
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