Oshili Power

Briefs for large power users.

Short, sourced pieces on the tariffs, grid access, supply risks and market changes that decide what energy-intensive operations in Southern Africa pay for power, and how secure that supply is.

Market analysis.

Analysis from Oshili Power on the supply, pricing, and regulatory questions facing energy-intensive buyers across South Africa and the SAPP region. Pieces publish as they clear review.

  • The first offer will look like a tariff. Read it like a contract.

    When South Africa's wholesale electricity market opens, the supply offer that lands on a large power user's desk will carry familiar words and five new places to lose money. Here is what to ask before signing.

  • The grid has been quiet for 500 days. That is the most expensive time to be uninsured.

    Somewhere in your business there is a line for what electricity will cost next year, and it was set in the calmest year the South African grid has had in a decade.

  • Build your power plan on the record, not the promise

    Every energy plan in heavy industry across South Africa and the Southern African Power Pool rests on one quiet assumption: how much of the coal fleet will actually be available to generate.

  • Which world does your number assume?

    Somewhere in your business there is a number for what electricity will cost. South Africa's new wholesale electricity market has not yet settled what kind of market it will be, and your number has quietly picked an answer for you.

  • Same engine, different car

    South Africa's new wholesale electricity market and Australia's National Electricity Market form their prices the same basic way. The wrapper around that engine is where they part company.

SAWEM Dispatch

Markets and grid.

Advisories.

Short pieces on published advisories affecting the control equipment, protocols, and software that industrial sites and grid connections depend on. Each brief works from the primary source and links to it.

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