{"id":15966,"date":"2012-10-29T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africa-okays-5-4-bln-in-clean-energy-projects\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:09:41","slug":"s-africa-okays-5-4-bln-in-clean-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-okays-5-4-bln-in-clean-energy-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa okays $5.4 bln in clean energy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To sign deals worth 47 bln rand on Nov. 5<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To expand green energy procurement by 3,200 MW<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has given the<br \/>\ngreen light to an initial $5.4 billion worth of clean energy<br \/>\nprojects that will allow it to procure 1,400 MW of electricity<br \/>\nand help reduce reliance on coal-fired plants, the energy<br \/>\nminister said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government has selected 28 wind and solar projects in<br \/>\nthe first stage of the programme, with the contracts expected to<br \/>\nbe signed on Nov. 5, E nergy Minister Dipuo Peters said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These bidders will be investing about 47 billion rand ($5.4<br \/>\nbillion) in power generation and will create a number of jobs<br \/>\nduring construction and operation of these power plants,&#8221; Peters<br \/>\nsaid in a statement. The plants are due to be operational<br \/>\nbetween 2014 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s largest economy depends on coal for 85 percent of<br \/>\nits electricity supply of around 41,000 MW. Last year it<br \/>\nlaunched a process to procure cleaner energy to reduce carbon<br \/>\nemissions and bolster electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A key producer of platinum, gold, iron ore and coal, South<br \/>\nAfrica has been struggling to meet fast-rising demand for power.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The process of adding more renewable power to the grid has<br \/>\ndragged on for years and raised doubts about the government&#8217;s<br \/>\nability to deliver on its plans.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It has also chosen another 19 renewable energy projects<br \/>\nworth 1,043.9 MW in the second stage of the programme, which it<br \/>\nhopes to finalise by late March next year. A third bidding round<br \/>\nwill close on May 7.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* To sign deals worth 47 bln rand on Nov. 5 * To expand green energy procurement by 3,200 MW JOHANNESBURG Oct 29 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has given the green light to an initial $5.4 billion worth of clean energy projects that will allow it to procure 1,400 MW of electricity and help reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}