Municipal solar procurement is quietly outpacing Eskom
Six metros have gone to market in eighteen months. The utility has not.
While the national procurement rounds stall, municipalities have quietly become the most active buyers of renewable capacity in the country.
Where the volume actually sits
Six metros have run competitive procurement in the last eighteen months. Between them they have contracted more capacity than the last national round awarded.
Why councils can move faster
A metro answers to a council, not to a national process, and a council can sign inside a budget cycle.
The municipalities are not waiting any more. They have worked out that they can buy power themselves and they are getting on with it.
Naledi Pillay, Grid Access Forum
The constraint is no longer appetite. It is the technical capacity inside each municipality to run a procurement properly.
Alison Kruger
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