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Electricity privatisation is already happening
One of the virtues of the free market is that the incentive to produce a good is based on being paid. There is no political threat.
6 February 2024
One of the virtues of the free market is that the incentive to produce a good is based on being paid. There is no political threat.
Martin van Staden was featured in Eskom News on transparency about the adoption of the loadshedding policy.
To remove potential conflict between Eskom and the entry of independent power producers (IPPs) the transmission grid should be owned and managed by an experienced independent grid management company.
Martin van Staden was featured in Eskom News on the privatisation of old power plants in Tshwane.
The appropriate way to have dealt with the lack of power supply in South Africa would have been for the price of electricity to rise in a competitive market.
This article was first published by BizNews on 6 October 2023 Eskom continues to collapse, leaving South Africans in the dark and the cold, even as winter
The business-as-usual approach is fraught with risk, which is why the FMF has proposed that Tshwane either privatise the power stations outright, or subject them to a stateproof lease.
Eskom cannot be trusted with “load-limiting”, as the same kind of centralisation is what caused the energy crisis in the first place.
If electricity generation, transmission and distribution had been in private hands, with no barriers to entry preventing competitors from entering the market, this situation would not have arisen.
‘Government’ is a serious concept. Related theories of public utilities, the commons, and privatisation are similarly serious and nuanced.
