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Parliament s Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy has voted to not proceed with a proposed probe into the department of energy s Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme.
The proposal was submitted by DA MP Kevin Mileham but garnered no cross-party support.
The committee then passed a separate vote to say that most of its concerns around the programme had been addressed.
Parliament s Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy has voted against a proposal to launch an investigation into how bids were awarded for a multi-billion-rand programme to fast-track new power production.
Members on Wednesday voted along party lines at the end of a three-hour hearing. The vote was proposed by the DA s Kevin Mileham, who was seconded by his party colleague James Lorimer. But the proposal garnered no cross-party support and failed.
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LONGi, a Tier 1 solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, supplies more than 30GW of high-efficiency solar wafers and PV panels worldwide annually – about a quarter of global market demand.
ARTsolar was established in Durban in 2010 by entrepreneurs Eshu Seevnarayan and Patrick Goss, who remain shareholders of the 100% South African-owned company. Its current PV panel production line was designed for a capacity of 300MW a year, although due to market conditions over the past five years it has been operating significantly below this level.
On 19 March 2021, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe announced preferred bidders for the Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme (RMIPPP), which alone will require about 2,2 million solar PV panels with a total capacity of about 1,300MW for delivery of power into the grid by the end of August 2022. To achieve this ambitious target the projects must reach financial closure by the end of July 2021.