March 17, 2021
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The stand-out item in the Western Capeâ governmentâs budget, apart from its determination not to be caught napping by another wave of Covid -19 infections, was aportioning R70 million to assist six municipalities in generating, buying and selling their own electricity.
The idea is to avoid the tsunami of load-shedding we have been promised for the next five years by the Eskom state monopoly. That is how long it hopes it will take to fix the shambles left of the national power system it inherited from its former managerial kleptocracy.
Unlike other budget promises we have heard from other levels of government this one appears to have determination to make it a reality.
These are the Western Cape municipalities taking the steps to ditch Eskom
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Cape Town - The municipalities participating in the Western Capeâs project to move off the national power grid and beat load shedding have been revealed.
While delivering his âBudget for Hopeâ in the Western Cape legislature on Tuesday, Finance and Economic Opportunities MEC David Maynier highlighted the Municipal Energy Resilience project.
The Municipal Energy Resilience (MER) Project is aimed at strengthening the energy resilience of municipalities in the Western Cape by assisting them in taking the necessary steps to generate, procure and sell their own power.
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Six Cape municipalities identified as most equip to develop own power generation
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Cape Town - The six Western Cape municipalities identified to develop their own power generation projects were selected after an evaluation by the provincial government.
Finance and Economic Opportunities MEC David Maynier highlighted the Municipal Energy Resilience MER Project when he presented the province’s budget on Tuesday.
Maynier also pledged over R60 million to be allocated over the medium term to the province’s MER Project which would help municipalities across the Western Cape to understand the requirements of the new national energy regulations, and mitigate related risks as well as provide for network and operational capacity requirements for energy project development and procurement in municipalities.
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