{"id":44884,"date":"2023-02-23T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/cef-hits-out-at-de-ruyter-for-wild-allegations-about-russian-involvement-in-sa-gas-power-plans"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:25:34","slug":"cef-hits-out-at-de-ruyter-for-wild-allegations-about-russian-involvement-in-sa-gas-power-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/cef-hits-out-at-de-ruyter-for-wild-allegations-about-russian-involvement-in-sa-gas-power-plans","title":{"rendered":"CEF hits out at De Ruyter for &#8216;wild allegations&#8217; about Russian involvement in SA gas power plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Central Energy Fund (CEF) has lashed out at former Eskom CEO Andre\u0301 de Ruyter for speculating that Russia could be involved in its plans to take over soon-to-be-decommissioned plants and turn them into gas power stations.<\/p>\n<p>The CEF said it was &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; that it was put in a position where it had to respond to De Ruyter&#8217;s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CEF considers it reckless for Mr De Ruyter to go on national television and make wild allegations about the request for collaboration with Eskom on the coal-fired power stations that Eskom intends to decommission,&#8221; it said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with e.tv&#8217;s Annika Larsen, broadcast on Tuesday night, De Ruyter cautioned that he was &#8220;going into the realm of speculation&#8221;, with &#8220;no evidence&#8221;, when he spoke about the repercussions of a visit by Russian minister of energy Nikolay Shulginov to SA late last year. This was in the context of the decreased flow of Russian gas to Europe due to a variety of factors in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It [Russia] is looking for markets for gas, there is no doubt about that. It was quite interesting for me to observe how soon after we received a request from the Central Energy Fund to transfer three of our ageing power stations Camden, Hendrina and Grootvlei to the Central Energy Fund &#8211; which by the way reports into the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy &#8211; to convert those to gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe I am adding one and one and getting three, but [in] politics there is very seldom such a thing as a coincidence,&#8221; De Ruyter said in the interview, which also highlighted the level of corruption he had to deal with at Eskom, including the involvement of a &#8220;senior politician&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The day after the interview, De Ruyter, whose resignation was set to take effect at the end of March, left the job &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe told Bloomberg that his plans to create a new state-owned power company would involve converting the Hendrina, Grootvlei and Camden coal-fired plants into gas power stations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we re-purpose them into gas power stations, we will save a lot of life in South Africa in terms of energy,&#8221; Mantashe told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The CEF said on Thursday that its message to Eskom was, and still is to &#8220;intensify collaboration between the two&#8221; given &#8220;the importance of gas&#8221; in the Just Energy Transition.<\/p>\n<p>The CEF attached its previous correspondence with De Ruyter to Thursday&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to De Ruyter, CEF group CEO Ishmael Poolo requested an &#8220;urgent engagement with Eskom in order to establish the most pragmatic form of Eskom availing the infrastructure to CEF&#8221;. Poolo highlighted CEF&#8217;s stake in the Rompco gas pipeline from Mozambique, and said the company was also interesting in converting Eskom&#8217;s diesel-powered units to gas power power stations.<\/p>\n<p>De Ruyter said in response that Eskom wants to &#8220;repower its soon-to-be-decommissioned power stations to solar, wind, battery energy storage systems and synchronised condenser technologies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, studies were conducted on the feasibility of gas-to-power technologies, specifically at the Komati power station. The results indicate that the conversion of the current boilers to be gas-fired is not cost effective, mainly due to the inefficiencies of the process and the age of the infrastructure,&#8221; De Ruyter said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Eskom &#8220;intends to work with the private sector, through public-private partnership (PPP) models to repower the stations to renewable technologies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>De Ruyter also said that Eskom was considering turning its diesel-powered open-cycle gas turbines plants to gas, and the &#8220;intent is to soon put out a tender for the supply of gas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth correspondence eventually ends, according the documents provided by the CEF, with De Ruyter agreeing to Poolo&#8217;s request for a workshop to discuss the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The Central Energy Fund (CEF) has lashed out at former Eskom CEO Andre\u0301 de Ruyter for speculating that Russia could be involved in its plans to take over soon-to-be-decommissioned plants and turn them into gas power stations. 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