The funding will help facilitate 'restructuring of the power sector'.
The World Bank said it will support South Africa’s transition to using cleaner forms of energy with a $1 billion loan. The funding will help facilitate “restructuring of the power sector” through the unbundling of state-owned utility Eskom Holdings, the lender said in a statement on Wednesday. “It supports the opening of the power market and aims at improving Eskom’s efficiency by redirecting its resources toward investments in transmission and maintenance of existing power plants.
13trn for its transition to green energy: Creecy ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW South Africa, which depends on coal to generate most of its electricity, has been hit by regular power cuts because Eskom’s plants are old and unreliable. Splitting the utility into separate generation, transmission and distribution businesses is aimed at restoring the company to profitability and adding more private producers to the grid.
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