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In South Africa’s latest effort to beef up renewable electricity supply as the country grapples with power shortages, the government selected 25 preferred bidders procuring a total of 2,583 Megawatts (MW), Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe disclosed on Thursday.
Speaking at a media briefing, Mantashe said a request for proposals for the procurement of 2,600 MW under the next bid round for private power producers will go to the market by the end of January 2022.
To find the quickest options to ease a power shortage that has cost Africa’s most industrialised economy billions of dollars, a tender for 2,600 MW was launched in April.
On Monday, state power utility, Eskom said South Africa needed an extra 4,000 to 6,000 MW of generation capacity to eliminate the risk of scheduled power cuts.
