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The South African city of Cape Town has announced it is issuing its largest energy tender to date at 500 MW in continuing pursuit of becoming independent from the national grid. Cape Town, through its ZAR2.3bn ($127.5mn) “Building Hope” budget, aims to offer protection from the first four stages of power outages, or load shedding, imposed by the state power utility Eskom,