Western Cape wants national government to launch a Gas Independent Power Producer programme
The Western Cape is lobbying national government to initiate a Gas Independent Power Producer programme as a matter of urgency to tackle the energy crisis.
This comes as Eskom, which supplies virtually all of SA’s energy, continues to struggle to meet demand largely due maintenance issues and poor management. The power utility’s substations, which are meant to help meet peak demand in times of constrained electricity supply, currently run on diesel which the DA says is an unaffordable and environmentally unfriendly source of power.
David Maynier, the Western Cape MEC for finance and economic opportunities, said at the weekend the national government programme to import LNG and build gas-to-power plants has stalled for the past four years, owing to a lack of movement on broader national energy policy. The Western Cape had been actively promoting the importation of LNG for several years. “I will, therefore, be writing to the minister of energy Gwede Mantashe requesting him to initiate the Gas Independent Power Producer programme as a matter of urgency, and to ensure that one of the identified sites for gas importation is Saldanha Bay,” the MEC said.The southern African region, in particular Mozambique which has a pipeline to SA, could be the major supplier of gas to SA.
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