The EAP was introduced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in July 2022 and is coordinated by the National Energy Crisis Committee under the leadership of Electricity Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.Enable and accelerate private investment in generation capacity.Unleash businesses and households to invest in rooftop solar.The President’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said the EAP update highlights “significant progress” made.
“Government is working towards the full implementation of the Energy Action Plan to bring an end to load shedding once and for all,” he said.“Some of the achievements achieved in the past six months include the return of the three units at Kusile Power Station months ahead of schedule, the amount of rooftop solar installed by businesses and households, more than doubling to over 5,000MW, helping to reduce demand on the grid.
The first project from Eskom’s Battery Energy Storage System programme has been connected to the grid and will provide 100 megawatt hours of storage capacity. Seven other projects are in construction as part of Phase 1 of the programme, which will together provide a total of 833MWh of capacity.