‘Only 3 provinces have the wind and solar energy to produce power’

Home | ‘Only 3 provinces have the wind and solar energy to produce power’ The Independent Power Producers (IPP) Office says the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape are the only three provinces that have a combination of wind and solar energy to produce power. It says the three provinces have more collective wind energy than the rest of the country. The IPP Office gave Parliament’s Electricity and Energy Portfolio Committee an update on renewable energy, the IPP procurement programme and the risk mitigation factors.

IPP Office Head Bernard Magoro says KwaZulu-Natal is the only province without a project under their procurement programme . “Northern Cape is sitting with 50 projects and it has quite different kinds of technologies, that’s mainly solar because of the radiation potential in the province. We also have wind in the province as well.



And then Western Cape, we also have a combination of wind and solar. Eastern Cape, it’s only wind and then the rest of the country is mainly PV so we don’t have a lot of wind in the rest of the country except the Cape region.” “Also to mention that KZN is the only province that we don’t have a project that is under the IPP procurement programme.

It’s purely because of lack of radiation in the province and wind has then been now, there are projects that are currently under development in the province and Mpumalanga that should participate in future” Magoro adds.  SABC © 2024.