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Kilian Hagemann
@KilianHagemann
Renewable energy entrepreneur with a vision for South Africa to go 100% renewable by 2050
Aug 19 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Last Friday the IPP office published the list of #REIPPPP bids received in bid window 7 (). Without knowing who will be awarded, this already has profound implications for the RE industry and South Africa's energy landscape
A thread 🧵 ipp-renewables.co.za
Image 2/ The vast majority of the bids received are solar PV. Why? It's much quicker, cheaper and simpler to develop PV projects. 9000MW of PV bids received against a procurement target of 1800MW (5x oversubscribed), meaning rock bottom tariffs once again (R0.30-0.40/kWh?) Image
Dec 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1/5 Guys, this is insane and a game changer on so many levels. It's sending shockwaves through the South African #renewables industry. @DMRE_ZA just announced only 6 Preferred Bidders, all PV totalling 860MW, all outside Western and Eastern Cape regions. Not a SINGLE wind bid @DMRE_ZA 2/5 This is against a #REIPPPP BW6 procurement target of 1000MW PV, 3200MW wind and a nationwide stage 6 #Loadshedding backdrop as we speak. You may wonder what the heck happened here??? Let me explain using #Eskom transmission's most recent grid capacity assessment (GCCA)...