DoE says power-strapped SA must help neighbours with electricity supply

As South Africa faces a shortfall in electricity, gas as power could increasingly become an option, but the Department of Energy (DoE) has advised potential bidders for gas projects in South Africa that it also needs to consider proposals from other Southern African countries. The DoE’s head of the independent power producers, Karen Breytenbach, said on Wednesday that South Africa should not ‘just look after itself’, noting that she had received investor proposals from Botswana and Namibia as well as Mozambique, concerning projects in the Maputo port.