SAPVIA calls for clarity on local content requirements

The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) is calling for immediate clarity from the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) about its approach to localisation, specifically in the South African solar photovoltaic (PV) sector. The DTIC and the National Treasury have stipulated minimum thresholds for local content across several sectors – including solar PV components – with the intent being to encourage local manufacturing and, ultimately, industrialisation in South Africa.
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Flexible dual-fuel engines to modernise Flour Mills Nigeria plant

Energy and marine equipment manufacturer Wärtsilä will supply fuel-flexible dual-fuel engines to extend, improve and modernise power generation for a captive power plant at Nigeria’s oldest and largest food and agroprocessing company Flour Mills Nigeria. Flour Mills Nigeria’s Lagos-based power plant is needed to ensure sufficient capacity and a reliable around-the-clock electricity supply to enable the company to manufacture its food products and meet its commitment to customers.
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New framework needed to accommodate third-party electricity generators on the national grid

The wheeling and trading of electricity produced by third parties into the national grid is a complex issue that requires frameworks and grid capacity building, State-owned power utility retail pricing corporate specialist Shirley Salvoldi has said.

She spoke during a webinar on the topic of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that the licensing-exemption threshold for distributed generation projects would be increased from 1 MW to 100 MW, and how this could benefit South Africa’s commercial and industrial sectors.

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