DESPITE its dire financial situation, the City of Tshwane launched an energy action plan on Monday that is based on leveraging its idle energy assets – the Rooiwal coal-fired power station north of Pretoria and its dilapidated Pretoria West counterpart, which boasts little more than land and grid connection.
Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink said the city hopes to procure generation capacity of at least 1 000 megawatts (MW) from the private sector to make it less dependent on the faltering Eskom for its total requirement of about 2 600MW.
The city does not have money for the capital investment needed at the two power stations or in new generation capacity and therefore needs to work with the private sector, Brink said. moneyweb.co.za