Earlier this year, the municipality appointed an energy task team to look into how the city could be independent from Eskom.
JOHANNESBURG - The Tshwane Municipality has set itself a goal of procuring and generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity independent from Eskom over the next three years.On Monday, the task team presented the first step of that goal, which is the leasing out of the non-operational Rooiwal and Pretoria West power stations to independent power producers.
"We dont know how Eskom’s generating capacity is going to deteriorate in the next year, in the next three years, but we are assuming it will be at least stable but declining. So yes, of course, we would want to save stages of load shedding by every means possible." Mphaga said they should be awarding contracts by the end of June next year. TCG pic.twitter.com/UDqLZyk1Wj
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