Johannesburg residents will get some relief when it comes to stages of load shedding as City Power has procured electricity from four independent power producers.
The City of Johannesburg has procured electricity from four independent power producers.Additional power was secured via a short-term purchase agreement.
The City of Johannesburg said on Thursday it would start feeding into the grid in two to three months. The MMC for environment and infrastructure services, Jack Sekwaila, said the entity had secured 92MW of power from the four IPPs via a short-term purchase agreement."The four IPPs will supply power from various sources, including waste to energy, gas to power and photovoltaic solar generation. The gas to power IPPs will offer the City the flexibility to generate baseload power, which is 24/7 power generation," he said.
Sekwaila added that City Power was implementing several other initiatives to reduce the impact of load shedding. The installation of the rooftop PV systems at its head office to pilot the rollout to at least 700 other sites across the City, including the Joburg market;
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