Government to issue transmission RFP before year-end

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is expected to announce the first round of procurement for transmission expansion in his budget speech today (March 12).

This was revealed by South Africa’s Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa during a media briefing on the sidelines of the Africa Energy Indaba at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from March 4-6.

More than R440 billion is needed to meet the ambitions of the Transmission Development Plan, he said. 

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