Independent transmission project office to be set up to procure new grid using build, operate, …

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa reports that government plans to establish an independent transmission project office, located either at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) or the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), to procure new transmission capacity using a build, operate and transfer (BOT) model. He used his latest briefing on the Energy Action Plan to again emphasise the importance of expanding the country’s electricity networks to help end loadshedding, which has been undermining the growth and development of the economy for some 14 years.