British International Investment, the UK government’s development finance arm, plans to invest $6-billion over the next five years.
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Government has signed power purchase agreements for 150MW of capacity from private projects by developer Scatec that were selected a year ago.
South Africa’s plan to add an estimated R95-billion worth of private emergency power generation has been further delayed.
“Wheeling” – moving privately generated power to customers across the national grid – is gaining traction in South Africa’s increasingly liberalised energy market.
A court case filed by a losing bidder in South Africa’s emergency power programme threatens to delay the provision of the electricity by months.
A new report from Eskom points to the potential of new energy projects soon needing to consider locations outside of the Northern Cape. By Jan Fourie.