The minister said that accelerating renewable energy is the country’s path to energy sovereignty and fighting climate change
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Achieving the targets the country has set for itself requires the “accelerated onboarding of renewables” as part of the aggregate energy mix. “We think that the opportunities are vast going into the future … Under the seventh administration, the energy and electricity department is going to accelerate this procurement programme. We want to be aggressive,” Ramokgopa said.“That is significant but it doesn’t necessarily follow that the entire amount is operational and, in fact, of that figure, 7 335MW are operational, coming from 95 projects.
“One of the things that w achieved in the first few days of the seventh administration was our ability to exploit our convening power and call everyone in this space into one room so we can critique … the nine bid windows and see how best each and every one can contribute to the very efficient and seamless procurement of the renewable energy procurement programme,” Ramokgopa said.
“We must accelerate this and we are going to de-risk energy generation just from a monopoly as Eskom and then we’re able to have multiple generators of electricity in the country. We’ve seen what are the downsides of a monopoly. When a monopoly fails, it drags the entire country with it.”
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