Ramokgopa outlines plan for blended-finance structure to meet 2030 universal access goal

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has provided an outline of a revised universal access strategy that employs a blended financing approach to electrify, by 2030, the more than 1.6-million households in South Africa that still do not have access to electricity. Speaking in Parliament, Ramokgopa said the new model would move beyond the traditional grid-only approach that had hitherto dominated South Africa’s multi-decade electrification programme, and include micro- and off-grid technologies.