The country needs to build and fund a R390 billion expansion of the national grid over the next decade.
South Africa is running out of power lines to transmit electricity from new projects and also needs an updated plan to keep running the auctions that are responsible for getting more supply from new large-scale clean-energy facilities, the head of the bid office said.
As the country builds new power plants to end years of electricity outages that have hobbled the economy, it also needs to build and fund a R390 billion expansion of the national grid over the next decade so it can connect those facilities with factories, businesses and homes.
“Bringing the private sector in is going to be important,” National Transmission Company South Africa Chairperson Priscillah Mabelane told reporters.
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