Cape Town to procure 300 MW of renewables from IPPs

• The City of Cape Town will certainly look for to procure as much as 300 MW of renewable resource through tendering procedures over the coming months, mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced today.

The city's very first procurement round will certainly be focused on proposals from independent power producers (IPPs) for projects ranging in between 5 MW and also 20 MW, much of them utilizing the solar PV technology. IPPs will have the ability to submit propositions for generation-only, generation-plus-storage, as well as storage-only projects, the mayor claimed.

A second tender for projects of over 20 MW that can come on-line soon results from comply with.

The purchase initiative is meant to aid the city rid itself of frequent load-shedding and lower its dependence on South African utility Eskom.

"We have concerned approve load-shedding as a fact of life in South Africa. But in Cape Town, we claim, no more! [W] e take the first vital step on a journey to making Cape Town the very first load-shedding-free city in South Africa," Hill-Lewis stated.