Have a look at how the City plans to end load-shedding
19 July 2023
The City encourages all residents and interested parties to check out the Cape Town’s draft Energy Strategy. It shows how the City’s going to end load-shedding and make Cape Town stronger for all. Only 12 days left to comment by 31 July 2023. View here: Comment on the City’s draft Energy Strategy.
‘Our strategy builds on three commitments: to end load-shedding, alleviate energy poverty, and optimise energy use across Cape Town. This will be backed by a future-fit municipal electricity service, proactive electricity infrastructure upgrades, and support for residents to seize opportunities in the changing energy market.
‘The strategy is a roadmap showing how in this fast-changing energy environment, business, residents, investors and the City can work together to create a future-fit Cape Town, powered by a cleaner, more affordable energy mix, where we are all far less reliant on Eskom. There are only 12 days left to comment. Let’s make this a plan we can all get behind,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Councillor Beverley van Reenen.
Overall, Cape Town is planning to add up to one gigawatt of independent power supply to end load-shedding in the city over time, with the first 650MW of this within five years, including enough to protect against four Eskom load-shedding stages by 2026.
The energy supply mix could include:
• Embedded IPP renewable energy (200MW) – with the goal to diversify electricity suppliers for more reliable, cost-effective electricity
• Dispatchable Energy (up to 500MW) – a key load-shedding mitigation mechanism, with 10-year power contracts for renewable energy plants which need not be grid-tied
• Wheeling (up to 350MW) – a City-enabled means of third parties selling electricity to each other using existing grid infrastructure
• Private Small Scale Embedded Generation (up to 100 MW) and small-scale electricity sales under the Cash for Power programme for residents and businesses with solar PV generation capacity
• City-owned SSEG (up to 20MW) from the Atlantis plant (7MW) and solar PV at City facilities (13MW)
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City of Cape Town, Media Office
