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The two companies will now be able to sell panels to some of the winners of contracts to supply emergency power to the national grid. The preferred bidders were named in March and they must conclude funding arrangements and regulatory requirements by the end of July for their contracts to come into force.
The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association, or Sapvia, which represents both manufacturers and importers of solar panels, said the exemption disadvantages some of its members who were unaware that the bidding requirements would be changed retrospectively. Some local solar panel plants have had to shut down because of the inconsistency of government demand, according to Wido Schnabel, its chairm
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Ramaphosa heralds end to private power generation hiatus
Ramaphosa also said that previously announced plans to make it easier for companies to produce their own power will be finalised within three months.
By Paul Burkhardt and Mike Cohen, Bloomberg
12 Feb 2021 10:16
Image: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
After years of prevaricating, South Africaâs government is finally edging ahead with plans to buy more power from private producers, reduce the nationâs reliance on the behemoth state utility Eskom and ease crippling energy shortages.
âGovernment will soon be initiating the procurement of an additional 11 800 megawatts of power from renewable energy, natural gas, battery storage and coal,â President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state-of-the-nation address to parliament in Cape Town on Thursday. That follows the publication in 2019 of the Integrated Resource Plan a blueprint for the stateâs energy mix to be implemented as Es