City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for energy and climate change, Phindile Maxiti, says the City will petition the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to expedite the matter to allow not only Cape Town, but other municipalities to be able to purchase energy from independent power producers .
In 2017, the City served the Department of Energy and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa with court papers challenging the so-called"single-buyer" model in South Africa, whereby Eskom is given exclusive right to produce electricity from generators of electricity for resale, including electricity from renewable energy IPPs.
Maxiti said that the City, and indeed the country, could not afford to suffer any more economic devastation from load shedding, adding that,"given the governance issues that have again been raised regarding Eskom, it provides further imperative to ensure that we produce diversified energy sources".
kamva_somdyala Who is going to benefit
kamva_somdyala This is an idea we should all get behind. We are done being held hostage by the ANC and Eskom monopoly on electricity.