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Anton Eberhard
@AntonEberhard
Energy policy & investment specialist & advisor. Professor Emeritus, Power Futures Lab, GSB, University of Cape Town
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Apr 18, 2024
    I went to the official opening of South Africa’s largest solar PV (540MW) and battery (225MW/1140MWh) plant today near Keinhardt in the N Cape. Seriously impressive, 9 km from one end to the other, nearly 1 million panels, R18 bn investment, built by Scatec in 15 months.
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    Anton Eberhard
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    May 16, 2018
    We forget Ramaphosa has been president for only 3 months. So much already achieved: * New Eskom Board & implicated execs out * New Transnet Board * New Denel Board & CEO out * New PRASA Board * SARS Tom Monyane out * SSA Arthur Fraser out * Supra’s NW Province taken over ....
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Nov 21, 2018
    Pravin Gordhan survived three brutal detentions by the apartheid security police. He survived the dirty tactics of the Hawks & State Security Agency orchestrated by Zuma. He’ll survive the pidly propoganda and lies of the EFF. Time for cabinet colleagues to stand up & be counted
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    Anton Eberhard
    @AntonEberhard
    Dec 30, 2019
    In tweeting this cartoon @helenzille aptly captures the poverty of her liberalism: always seeking to make a “principled” point but without sensitivity to context & 🇿🇦’s painful history. The DA is dead. What we need is effective modern social democracy not this liberal ideology
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    Helen Zille
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    Dec 29, 2019
    This aptly captures the fallacy and racism behind race generalizations.
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    Anton Eberhard
    @AntonEberhard
    Feb 11, 2019
    I don’t think South Africa’s national utility Eskom has ever before invoked stage 4 load shedding. I hate that term. What it means is they’re cutting power for lots of us because they can’t keep their power stations operating. They’re effectively a monopoly. We need more options
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Nov 3, 2022
    South Africa would not be experiencing loadshedding now if @Eskom_SA’s newest 4800MW coal power stations - Medupi & Kusile - were working properly. This is the latest mishap at Kusile. Currently only two out of six units there are producing electricty. Construction began in 2008
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    Anton Eberhard
    @AntonEberhard
    Jul 21, 2022
    We’ve seen trucks transporting coal in South Africa when it should be on rail, but trucks taking manganese from the Northern Cape all the way down to Eastern Cape ports. Come on, Transnet, get your act together.
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Oct 28, 2022
    I’ve read the 90+ page charge sheet against ex @Eskom_SA CEO Matshela Koko. Impulse International received more than R1 billion in Kusile contracts and then at least R80m was paid to his wife and her daughters’ trusts and accounts. Tragic that he drew them into this corrupt web.
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    Anton Eberhard
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    May 14, 2022
    Ethiopian flights from Addis this Saturday morning in a 90 minute period, all over the African continent and further abroad. How many flights does South African Airways have this morning? That’s the legacy of Ex Prez Zuma, ministers Gigaba and Brown and SAA board chair Dudu Myeni
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Mar 8, 2018
    After years of economic sabotage by Zuma's administration, Ramaphosa's Energy Minister @radebe_jeff - in the job only a week - liberates R56 billion investment in 27 renewable energy projects, 58% equity owned by South Africans, huge black shareholding ow.ly/HRKn30iPqOr
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Oct 1, 2025
    Eskom is spinning its latest financial results as a triumph yet it would not have made a profit, before or after tax, without a massive bailout from government of R64bn, half of which went to interest payments. And a further bailout of R80bn is planned for this next year! Indeed,
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    Eskom Hld SOC Ltd
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    Sep 30, 2025
    ✅ Eskom is profitable again! For the first time since 2017, Eskom has recorded a profit before tax of R23.9 billion, a major turnaround from last year’s R25.5 billion loss. This was made possible by stronger performance across the board, including better plant reliability and
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Nov 19, 2018
    I'm outraged that journalists report without evaluation the false EFF narrative that Pravin Gordhan facilitated state capture and is corrupt. This is breathtakingly Trumpian: the truth is portrayed as fake news and fake news as truth. South Africans applaud his honesty & bravery
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Apr 19, 2022
    At a press briefing today, @Eskom_SA’s CEO reminded South Africans that the last government power generation procurement programme that has added capacity to the grid was conducted in 2014 and that his predecessor CEOs blocked and delayed the IPP programme for a number of years.
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    Anton Eberhard
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    Oct 28, 2021
    SA’s energy minister Mantashe shows he’s completely out of touch with the realities of the South African economy by claiming we only experience load shedding at night (as part of his argument that solar doesn’t really help & we need “baseload”) Businesses are suffering, minister!