The Western Cape Minister of Infrastructure, Tertuis Simmers says his department is committed to addressing the province’s energy resilience through various infrastructure projects.
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Simmers says while the department’s vision is to enable infrastructural growth and investment for the province in the long term, it has also dug deep to assist in addressing the current energy crisis dogging the province. “For the 2023/2024 financial year, we have allocated R61.9 million towards energy initiatives, which will be in support of the economy and society and these initiatives are not limited to the following. We have allocated R9.
“Obviously government facilities are not immune to the energy crisis, and therefore we will be supporting key facilities to augment the energy shortage with the following and earlier this week we completed two new solar PV installations, one at the green building at the Karl Bremmer hospital and for the department of agriculture as well and also key government sites and buildings will benefit from our further initiatives into the new year,” Simmers adds.
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