Reuters reported on 26 January that the South African government planned to launch multiple procurement rounds for solar, wind, gas, coal and battery power over the next year. The news agency cited a report made at a three-day meeting of African National Congress officials which set out plans to launch a 2.6GW solar and wind procurement round this month or next, followed by a further 2.6GW procurement in August and a third round in January or February 2021 for 1.6GW. Alongside the renewable procurement rounds, tenders would be launched for 500MW of energy storage in September and for 1.5GW of coal and 3GW of gas in December.
Subscribe to African Energy