Biggest South African City Seeks Power Supply From Private Firms
- Jonnesburg aims to avert power cuts, municipality’s mayor says
- City has $18.3 billion infrastructure backlog, Phalatse says
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. has subjected the country to rolling blackouts since 2008.
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Johannesburg’s municipality intends buying 500 megawatts of electricity from independent producers to help avert ongoing power outages in South Africa’s biggest city.
A request for proposals is awaiting approval from the National Treasury and should be issued within weeks, Mpho Phalatse, Johannesburg’s mayor, said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg offices on Monday.