What business opportunities will the South African power crisis bring to electrical enterprises?
Writer： Hengfeng you electric Time：2023-04-13 views：times
In recent months, the power supply situation in South Africa has been chaotic. According to the Financial Times, Eskom has to cut off a large number of customers' electricity every day, sometimes for as long as 10 hours, in order to prevent the accelerated collapse of aging coal-fired power plants, leading to the collapse of the entire power network. On February 9, 2023 local time, the President of South Africa, Lamafosa, delivered his annual State of the Union address in Cape Town and announced that South Africa was in a state of disaster. He said that the problem of power shortage has posed a threat to economic development and social structure.
However, due to technological progress in renewable energy and energy storage technology, the South African government is also moving towards this more sustainable solution. They are vigorously developing solar and wind power generators in order to solve the problem of power shortage in a long-term sustainable situation. Of course, investment in this technology requires a certain amount of time and economic expenditure, so it is difficult for the government to solve the current serious power shortage problem in the short term.
What South Africa lacks most at present and in the future is power generation equipment and transmission equipment. What business opportunities will it bring to electrical enterprises in the short and long term? MARTIN, economic analyst of Hengfengyou Electric, summarized the following two points:
1. In the short term, the best solution is for South African enterprises and individuals to purchase a large number of civil and industrial generators and solar panel power generation equipment to alleviate the current urgent need. Therefore, the demand for such products is bound to grow rapidly. Therefore, for enterprises and individuals, we should also take full advantage of this opportunity and actively take measures to use generators and solar panels and other power generation equipment to provide more stable power supply and demand for our lives.
2. In the long run, there will be a large demand for thermal power generation equipment, solar power generation, wind power generation and other power generation equipment, as well as power transmission equipment such as power towers, high and low voltage cables. Hengfengyou Electric Group has business in more than 50 countries and regions around the world, and is the designated supplier for the world's top 500 enterprises. It can provide power transformers, distribution boards, transmission towers, wires and cables, generators, energy storage and other power transmission and distribution equipment（ hfy@hengfengyou.com )。
In short, the power shortage in South Africa has had a huge negative impact on society. Although the South African government is actively promoting the development of thermal power generation, renewable energy, energy storage technology, etc., it needs a long time and a large amount of capital investment. Therefore, to alleviate the current situation in the short term, we can only temporarily rely on small and medium-sized generators, solar cells and other equipment to solve the problem of power shortage.
