The city’s MMC for environment and infrastructure services, Jack Sekwaila, said the procurement of energy through a “groundbreaking” Short-Term Power Purchase Programme (STPPP) agreement from four independent power producers (IPPs) would add 92MW to the city’s grid.
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Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe
NATIONAL NEWS - Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe says the department’s interventions have helped ensure that Eskom deals with its energy capacity shortages.
The Minister said this when he tabled the department’s budget vote during a mini plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday.
“In 2020, we committed to interventions to deal with electricity supply shortages. We undertook to rapidly increase energy generation capacity outside of Eskom.”
To date, the department has managed to implement a number of interventions, including:
The connection of 1 200 megawatts to the grid from projects signed under bid window 4 of the IPP Programme, with the remaining 1 000 megawatts planned to connect by not later than December 2021;
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