A stable, affordable and sustainable electricity supply remains South Africa’s most urgent priority. This urgency is sharply felt by the wind industry where there is a need to unlock grid capacity, which is the single biggest bottleneck preventing the rapid scale-up of new projects, said industry organisation South African Wing Energy Association (SAWEA) CEO Niveshen Govender. Providing an overview of the state of the industry in the lead up to Windaba 2025, Govender explained that State-owned power utility Eskom’s commitment to deploy 2 GW of construction-ready projects by 2026, scaling up to 32 GW by 2040, signals its recognition of the urgent need to expand generation capacity while building for the long term through the launch of the first Renewable Energy Offtake Programme.
