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South Africa selected five solar projects with a combined capacity of 860 MW in its latest auction. However, the authorities did not select any wind projects from the 4.1 GW of bids that were submitted. The final average price for PV was ZAR 0.490 ($0.02808)/kWh.
The only thing that is certain about South Africa’s current situation is that we will have rolling blackouts for the next two years — at least. A top energy expert helps us understand the roots of the deepening crisis at a time when politicians are focused on political survival and not the big,...
In late July, President Cyril Ramaphosa went on national television to announce a new electricity emergency plan to stop horrendous winter load-shedding. South Africans were “fed up”, he said, with their hopeless power supply, writes Peter Bruce.
Top ANC officials may be stomping their feet over Eskom, but the ruling party still has no plan on how to resolve — or even tackle — the energy crisis.
Eskom says construction of its first battery storage facility, which could help ease the electricity crisis, has started.