“Insane Green Gamble: 300MW Solar & Battery Boondoggle Begins, Plundering Taxpayer Millions”

CORPORATE GIANTS are making a SHOCKING power grab, leaving ordinary South Africans in the DARK. The so-called “groundbreaking” Naos-1 project is NOT the green utopia they claim—it’s a PRIVATIZED energy fortress for polluting giants Sasol and Air Liquide, funded by YOUR public development bank.

While citizens suffer under relentless load-shedding, this 300MW solar and battery mega-project will wheel power EXCLUSIVELY to these industrial behemoths. This isn’t progress; it’s a DANGEROUS precedent where the wealthy corporations build their OWN GRID, securing reliable, cheap power for themselves as the national infrastructure CRUMBLES around you.

Insiders call this “energy apartheid.” SOLA Group boasts of “dispatchable renewable energy,” but this power is LOCKED AWAY in private contracts. The message is clear: your lights can stay off, but the factories of the elite MUST run. This project proves the government has UTTERLY FAILED, forcing industry to build a parallel energy system that ABANDONS the public.

Worse, this model sets a terrifying blueprint. By 2030, SOLA aims for 2GW of solar—power that will increasingly flow only to those who can pay corporate premiums, creating a two-tier society: the powered and the powerless.

This is the future they don’t want you to see, where your energy crisis becomes their profitable opportunity. The grid is dying, and they’re building lifeboats for the 1%.