The bottlenecks in South Africa’s national transmission grid, referred to as gridlock, are a major concern for the country’s wind power sector. This was highlighted during a panel discussion on the first day (Wednesday) of the Windaba 2025 conference, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Gridlock is hampering the connection of new renewable-energy sources to the grid. “The grid is a massively important issue,” affirmed South African renewable-energy company Anthem CEO James Cumming. He expects to see another period in which renewable-energy generators will have to wait for the grid to get the capacity to accommodate them, before they will be able to connect with it. He urges renewable energy and the other relevant entities to work together to create combined grid applications that have sufficient scale to make a grid connection credible.
