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South Africa’s energy minister has announced plans to step up the procurement process for new gas-fired plants to salvage the country’s struggling energy sector

by: Erica Mills

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Out-Law.com: South Africa in "Dash for Gas" to Boost Struggling Power Sector

Tina Joemat-Pettersson told South Africa’s National Assembly (17-page / 300 KB PDF) that the “lack of timely coordination of our planning, alignment and implementation of our country’s energy programmes has created serious challenges for us”.

Joemat-Pettersson said issues surrounding the country’s power sector “compel us to add a significant amount of electricity generation to the grid in a very short time”.

Moves towards tendering for new gas-fired plants, with a combined electricity generating capacity of 3,126 megawatts (MW), began on 19 May when a formal ‘request for information’ was released to the market as part of the government’s ‘gas-to-power procurement programme’, Joemat-Pettersson said.

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