While South Africans sit in the dark, a POWERFUL new alliance is quietly securing a FUTURE that EXCLUDES you. New Planet Energy and Span Africa have just unveiled a MASSIVE 1.1MW solar project for Thuso Mills, a project so successful it’s already generating UNPRECEDENTED savings. But here’s the SHOCKING truth they don’t want you to focus on: this is the BEGINNING of a corporate-controlled energy revolution that will LEAVE ordinary citizens and the crumbling national grid BEHIND.
CEO John Bandey boasts of “empowering millions,” but the fine print reveals a HARSH reality. This “fully funded” model creates a system of energy HAves and Have-Nots. While select businesses lock in R25-million lifetime savings and energy independence, YOU remain a hostage to Eskom’s failing infrastructure and SOARING tariffs. This isn’t just green energy; it’s a CORPORATE LAND GRAB for South Africa’s power future, creating feudal-style dependencies where your local mill or factory answers to private energy lords.
The project’s “groundbreaking” solar-ready steel structure is a monument to this divide. It represents DUAL functionality for the chosen few: massive storage AND power generation. For the rest? NOTHING. Experts we spoke to are ALARMED, warning that this accelerated private build-out critically undermines the public grid’s viability, dooming it to a death spiral of higher costs for those who can’t afford to escape.
Even more DISTURBING are the implications of “phase 2,” which includes batteries and grid feed-in options. This paves the way for a SHADOW energy network, where powerful corporations could eventually SELL power back at a premium to the very public they’ve abandoned. The CEO’s own words are a thinly veiled threat: the goal is to make clients “independent from Eskom.” What happens to a nation when its most productive entities DECLARE ENERGY SECESSION?
This “beautiful day” of sunshine for a few heralds a permanent storm for the many. The question is no longer if the lights will go out, but for WHOM they will stay on. This is the dawn of South Africa’s ENERGY APARTHEID.
Author: Kayitsi.com
