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Grid capacity and the connection queue

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By Alison Kruger · 19 August 2026 · 2 min read · 0 views

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South Africa connected more renewable capacity in the year to June than in the three years before it combined. The number is real. What it does not tell you is where the queue now stalls.

The constraint moved

For most of the last decade the binding constraint was generation. Projects were financed, panels arrived, and the question was whether anyone would build them. That question has been answered.

What the connection data shows

Connection studies, not turbines, set the pace this year.

Capacity is no longer a generation problem. It is a queue-management problem, and the queue is administrative.

Naledi Pillay, Grid Access Forum

Twelve months of operating data now exist where previously there were only projections.

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