the country’s energy shortfall stood at 4 000MW.
He said the country will unleash new public and private sector investment in generation capacity at a massive scale. “Sixthly, encourage households and businesses to invest in small-scale solar power installations and feed energy to the grid.”He added there is coordination with all relevant departments, Eskom and the private sector to accelerate embedded generation projects.
A total of 68 projects are now in development, with a combined capacity of over 5 000MW that will begin to connect to the grid over the next few months. Participating in a debate of the Presidency budget vote on Thursday, the deputy president said as a caring government, the Presidency was aware of the inconvenience and hardship that load-shedding caused to people’s lives.