Eskom shares its Transmission Development Plan for 2021 to 2030
20 October 2020
Today, Eskom shared its Transmission Development Plan (TDP) for the period 2021 to 2030 with various stakeholders during a public forum hosted online. This is part of Eskom’s Transmission licence requirements issued by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), which calls for Eskom to publish a TDP annually.
This forum forms part of a consultative process where industry, various business sectors, local government, and other infrastructure development partners, get to influence the long-term development plan of the transmission system.
Segomoco Scheppers, Group Executive for Transmission, says, “Through our TDP, we aim to increase the transmission infrastructure by approximately 5 650 km of high-voltage lines and 41 595 MVA of transformer capacity in the next 10 years. A significant number of investments are required to strengthen the transmission grid to accommodate the new generation capacity in accordance with the IRP2019. Some adjustments have been made to the TDP since its last publication in 2019, which include the re-phasing of capital investment in transmission projects to align them with the project execution timelines that are associated with servitude acquisitions and current available funding.”
As a state-owned entity, Eskom understands the critical role it plays in enabling South Africa’s economic recovery efforts because without reliable electricity, there can be no sustainable economic recovery or growth.