{"id":204503,"date":"2021-10-08T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/city-of-joburg-signs-agreement-to-increase-power-supply\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:16:59","slug":"city-of-joburg-signs-agreement-to-increase-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/city-of-joburg-signs-agreement-to-increase-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Joburg signs agreement to increase power supply"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gauteng Premier David Makhura, together with Johannesburg Mayor Mpho Moerane, have signed a milestone power purchase agreement which is expected to add an extra 100MW of electricity to the city’s power supply.<\/p>\n

The two-year agreement was signed with private electricity supplier Kelvin Power Station which is expected to increase its electricity supply sent to the city\u2019s power utility City Power, from 80MW to 180MW.<\/p>\n

The Gauteng Premier said the move paves the way to securing a reliable power supply to the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy that Johannesburg has taken a concrete step to ensure that it enhances its own capacity to guarantee the supply of energy to the residents of the city. I think this is a tremendous achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Johannesburg is doing is something we want to do in the whole province. Reliable power supply and reliable supply of clean water. Those two are fundamental basics without which you can\u2019t do anything. What distinguishes us from significant progress is access to those two clean basic services, power and water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makhura highlighted that a secure electricity supply is needed for the economy of the city to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohannesburg has huge economic potential\u2026but you can\u2019t have an economy and residents enjoying quality of life if there is no power supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntermittent power supply interruptions have destroyed businesses and undermined the position of the city as an economic entry of our province. It is extremely important that we get Kelvin to go to the 300MW [of power supply],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Premier added that the province\u2019s metropolitan municipalities need to \u201ctake over\u201d electricity from Eskom.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Ekurhuleni Metro Municipality] is going out on an expansion…on power supply. They want to get more renewable energy supply with Independent Power Suppliers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe municipalities \u2013 especially the metros \u2013 taking over the supply of electricity is the right way to go. These are critical governance issues. This is an era where municipalities\u2026 [have to] build their own capacities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Makhura reiterated the call for more residents in the city to be connected to prepaid electricity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that the big worry is that the people don\u2019t pay\u2026but they must have prepaid electricity. People must pay for electricity as per the consumption. We can\u2019t have something called a flat rate. People must pay as per consumption. But we must sort out the infrastructure. When the substations have blown out, we can\u2019t take two years to fix a substation,\u201d he said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gauteng Premier David Makhura, together with Johannesburg Mayor Mpho Moerane, have signed a milestone power purchase agreement which is expected to add an extra 100MW of electricity to the city’s power supply. The two-year agreement was signed with private electricity supplier Kelvin Power Station which is expected to increase its electricity supply sent to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204504,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-204503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/city-of-joburg-signs-agreement-to-increase-power-supply.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204503","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=204503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}