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South Africa’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy has printed a listing of bidders for the seventh spherical of the nation’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP).
The listing contains eight wind challenge proposals with a mixed capability of 1,692 MW and 40 PV challenge proposals with a complete of seven.826 MW.
The proposed photo voltaic tasks vary in measurement from 91 MW to 240 MW. They might be constructed within the Free State, Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape provinces.
The authorities plans to allocate 3.2 GW of onshore wind capability and 1.8 GW of photo voltaic capability by means of this procurement train. The photo voltaic procurement spherical noticed excessive demand, whereas wind proposals didn’t meet the required threshold.
This public sale marks the primary below a plan issued by the South African authorities in December 2022 to accumulate 14,771 MW of latest technology capability. The plan contains 3.94 GW of photo voltaic, 9.6 GW of wind, and 1.23 GW of storage.
In the sixth section of the REIPPPP program, the South African authorities chosen 5 photo voltaic crops with a mixed capability of 860 MW, with the ultimate common worth reaching ZAR 0.49048 ($0.027)/kWh, a rise of 8% from the fifth section, when the typical worth reached ZAR 0.45423/kWh. The authorities initially deliberate to allocate as much as 1 GW of photo voltaic within the public sale.
The fifth section of the REIPPPP scheme was launched in March 2021. In complete, the authorities allotted 2.6 GW of renewable vitality capability in 25 tasks, starting from 75 MW to 140 MW.
The sixth and fifth procurement workout routines are a part of a plan to supply almost 12 GW of capability.
South Africa could have 5,826 MW of estimated put in PV capability by the top of 2022, in keeping with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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