Eskom’s woes open the door to green power, Jeff Radebe says

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The gazetting of the Integrated Resource Plan is imminent and will secure a future for independent power producers, Radebe says

Workers assemble the Kalkbult solar energy plant in the Karoo, the first solar energy plant to feed into the national grid. SA is in the vanguard of Africa’s efforts to use renewable energy to increase power supply to the masses. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES

Radebe said that, although the first two rounds of the government’s renewable energy independent power producers procurement programme were “very expensive”, successive rounds have been dropping cost. “They are getting cheaper and cheaper all the time, despite what the opponents of renewables say.” The government's green power programme had attracted more than R200bn, speaking to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for investment in the country.

 

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