Progress on the various electricity generation procurement programmes being overseen by South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) is now contingent on the new Cabinet approving further guarantees for Eskom, which remains the single buyer of power generated by independent power producers (IPPs).Deputy director-general Ompi Aphane told Engineering News Online in an interview that the department had been hoping to release bid documentation in May for the baseload-coal andcogeneration procurements programmes, as well as finalise the extension of bid window three under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).
However, he said Cabinet still needed to sanction the Eskom guarantees, which were necessary to unlock all of the proposed procurement programmes, regardless of whether the power was being procured from renewables, cogeneration or conventional IPPs.
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However, he said Cabinet still needed to sanction the Eskom guarantees, which were necessary to unlock all of the proposed procurement programmes, regardless of whether the power was being procured from renewables, cogeneration or conventional IPPs.
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