PublishedSouth Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation is looking into augmenting its energy supplies with distributed renewable energy systems at selected water works and associated infrastructure around the country. These projects will be for a 20-year operational period under a Design-Build-Finance and Operate framework.
The Department is now actively looking into the installation of conduit hydropower, floating/ground-mounted solar PV and wind power plant projects to augment power within the selected government waterworks and associated infrastructure.
The land required for the project will be leased out by the DWS in accordance with government legal prescripts.
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