The national grid lacks sufficient capacity for new power generation projects.
A shortage of electricity grid connections poses a major challenge that needs to be overcome as South Africa seeks to add the generation capacity needed to end record outages, according to the head of an office that procures power from private producers.
While South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a series of measures over the past year to tackle the crisis, including doubling wind power purchases from private contractors to 3,200 megawatts in a recent round of bids, none of those projects were selected because they couldn’t be connected.
The office has been working with Eskom to resolve bottlenecks and will only institute another round of bids to buy additional power from private producers after grid issues are addressed, Magoro said.
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