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South Africa’s urgent requirement for power supply, shared by many other African economies where sustained growth has added to energy demand, will produce a range of responses – some of them pushing SA’s usually financially conservative leaderships towards private financing solutions.

UK-based developer IPSA Group Plc has signed a memorandum of co-operation with the South African government’s Central Energy Fund (CEF) to supply a power plant for the Coega Industrial Development Zone outside Port Elizabeth. The agreement clears IPSA to proceed with its project for a 1,600MW combined-cycle gas turbine generating facility at Coega,

Two consortia led by US and French rivals Westinghouse and Areva have submitted bids to Eskom for the first of a series of planned nuclear power plants (AE 131/7, 116/9). Bids for the first 3,000MW-3,500MW plant, dubbed Nuclear 1, were submitted at the end of January

With capacity constraints causing load-shedding at home and export shortfalls to neighbouring countries, Eskom has expressed disappointment at the tariff increase approved by National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa). Eskom said Nersa had approved a price increase of 14.2%, compared to the 18.7% sought by the utility.