LUNGILE MASHELE: Only government can help with prohibitive cost of becoming an IPP
10 August 2023 - 05:00
“Hi, my family has a piece of land, and we’d like to build a solar power plant and sell to Eskom, what do we need?”
My silence is often followed by a sigh and what seems like ambivalence, interpreted as gatekeeping. The truth is there is a reason why only a few independent power producers (IPPs) play in this space, mostly the same entities and almost all overseas based. ..
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