Minister Gwede Mantashe this week will sign project agreements for 13 preferred bidders from bid window five.French developer, Engie SA plans to sign three power purchase agreements for solar projects.Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe will on Thursday sign project agreements with 13 preferred bidders from round five of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme .
Among the projects is that of Engie SA. The French developer plans to sign power-purchase agreements for a total of 22MW of solar projects after being selected as a preferred bidder as part of the so-called fifth bid window, according to Mohamed Hoosen, Engie's managing director for renewables in Africa, Middle East and Asia.
South Africa revised commercial close timelines for the projects chosen in the fifth bid window. It's since signed some agreements in a staggered order. Developers also await the selection of preferred bidders for the sixth bid window.
_Business Why has it taken so long? A little too late maybe?
_Business Is that why he and his gang are running down Eskom?
_Business We are subjected to blackouts solely to please the West. The west was built on coal. Let us maximize the use of the coal that God has given us while the green energy gang seeks a low-cost solution.
_Business How many of the ‘preferred bidders’ have close ties with the power elite and the well connected?
_Business Rupert will get that as just got certificate last week
_Business Who are the preferred bidders? What are their credentials? What sort of track records do they have? Or, are they shelf companies taking 50% to facilitate the deal? Just asking?
_Business Nameless IPPS
_Business This is why white people don't want Cyril to resign
_Business Abelungu are celebrating right now 😭😭😭
_Business these this SA is their union
_Business
_Business We will continue dealing with blackouts as long these sell outs are still running the country. Western countries are dumping these useless renewables for coal, and here we are a 3rd world country heading towards an opposite direction.
_Business Publish the list
_Business Howmany of these companies owned by African Rainbows Motsepe? CR brother in law
_Business Conference is loading, they are now trying to move with the speed of light... come 2024 nizobona amasimba anc
_Business Somewhere in those 13 bidders is a brother in law of someone TellMeImLying
_Business We are finished
_Business No urgency when you are not personally affected by load shedding. Life must be good.
_Business Should have 200 such projects up and running by now.
_Business Kahle kahle sivalwa mlomo ngale loardshading kuze sivume le renewable energy yakhona.
_Business Why do we always have to drag this pensioner along to do anything? Unless it's for self enrichment.
_Business But this toppie is old bathong ,have they run out of options?
_Business Intentionally collapsed eskom so that they can sign corrupt deals. People outside eskom aren't told the truth. Where on earth can you shutdown the turbine for outage without spares. All the outages are late because of unavailability of spares. Eskom management is a disaster.
_Business They are old man. They must just leave. We need fresh ideas
_Business Tender fraud begins motsipe and Oppenheimer are two of the bidders tha will sign ✍️ 😏
_Business Another failure by the Ramaposa Administration we have enough coal that we export to countries sponsering us for renewable energy...Ramaposa and his team must go
_Business Ahhh, so he waited for the right moment. All the cadre members kids will now benefit from this, with all the foreign company names and fake boses. Wait for it ☺️
_Business Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe will on Thursday sign resignation letter. Fixed it for you
_Business What did he take so long while we face an energy supply crisis.
_Business … and in 5 years we will see Parliament tabling enquiries into Tender Fraud!
_Business Wonderful news, this will help add 320 megfarts to the grid in year 20Voetsek.
_Business Patrice mosepe no1
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