New Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…South Africa has taken great strides in deploying private sector capital into renewable energy projects, giving the country its best chance at improving energy resilience and combatting climate change. But 2024’s twin challenges are expanding the capacity of the national power grid and making significant advancements in energy storage technologies.
The progress made through the programme highlights the sheer quantum of private sector capital that has been deployed into the renewable energy and infrastructure ecosystem to date and is an acknowledgement of the critical importance of incorporating renewable energy sources into our energy matrix to combat climate change while improving energy resilience.
There have been concerted efforts to address this challenge, and these include Eskom introducing an interim grid allocation solution, Eskom’s “curtailment” framework, and the upgrading of the grid infrastructure with smarter, more flexible technologies. Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has also called for private sector investment in expanding South Africa’s transmission capacity to satisfy the need to continually add more renewable energy to the grid.