The Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission s Valli Moosa said that President Cyril Ramaphosa s announcement on Thursday was only the start of changing the electricity crisis.
Eskom load-shedding has cost SA's economy about R25bn over the last two weeks, the Western Cape's minister of finance and economic opportunities said on Thursday.
The welcome announcement on 10 June 2021 by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that the threshold for self-generation power project licences would be lifted for projects generating up to 100MW of power is positive news for South Africa. The draft amendment to Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act (ERA), was published for comment in April 2021. It contained a self-generation threshold of 10MW of power, which allowed power plants with a capacity of between 1 – 10 MW to not be required to obtain a generation licence, but to register with The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA). The announcement by President Ramaphosa will require the draft amendments to be revised to increase the threshold to 100MW.