PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa reports that the pipeline of confirmed private embedded generation projects has increased to 100 with a total combined capacity of around 9 000 MW.
The President confirmed the figure in a series of written responses to Parliamentary questions posed by Democratic Alliance permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces from the North West, Carin Visser.
The questions focused on what progress, if any, had been made since both the President’s State of the Nation address, which had electricity security as a major theme, and his July 25 announcement of a series of initiatives to tackle intensifying loadshedding.
South Africa has experienced its worst-ever year for rotational power cuts with more than 155 days affected by the beginning of November and the outlook for the coming two years remaining bleak.
In his written responses, Ramaphosa said the amendment to Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act – which allowed generation facilities below 100 MW in size to
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