South Africa picks more renewable energy plans
South Africa has picked five solar sites for Bid Window 6 and signed PPAs for a number of Bid Window 5 plans, but progress remains slow.
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South Africa has picked five solar sites for Bid Window 6 and signed PPAs for a number of Bid Window 5 plans, but progress remains slow.
Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says the continuous power cuts by Eskom have the potential to overthrow the state.
Eskom, by not attending to load shedding, is agitating for the overthrow of the state,’ Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said as his department signed purchase agreements with independent power producers, securing 1,759MW of energy into the grid in the near future.
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe this week will sign project agreements with 13 preferred bidders from round five of the renewable energy procurement programme.
If we take solar generation to a higher level, for example, commercial and residential rooftops, there is a massive amount of real estate we can leverage. This can be used for embedded generation as well as be fed back into the national grid.