South Africa plans to try and resolve its chronic power shortage by making it easier for private companies to build plants and paying households and businesses to produce electricity from solar panels.
to try and resolve its chronic power shortage by making it easier for private companies to build plants and paying households and businesses to produce electricity from solar panels.
Our overriding priority is to add as much new capacity to the grid as possible, as quickly as possible In addition to seeking power from private sources, the government also wants to resolve some of the issues plaguing Eskom, such as the need to repair broken units, the presidency said. The company can reliably produce about 26GW at present, against a winter peak of 32GW.The presidency’s plans would add 7.2GW of capacity within three months, a further 5.7GW in a year and 9.8GW in 18 months, meaning that the amount of available generation capacity could almost double.
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