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News South Africa

SA independent power producers kept in the dark

According to ESI-Africa.com, Doug Kuni, MD of the South African Independent Power Producers Association (SAIPPA) said that because lights are on in South African homes and offices, "we think there is no electricity crisis. It's an illusion."

In fact, he said, it is Eskom's buy-back programme which has been keeping the lights on - inflicting "serious and unrecoverable loses to SA's economy which will impact far into the future."

Kuni said that the new requirement for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to get ministerial permission in order to obtain a production license is "vague and probably unconstitutional and IPPs have to spend hundreds of thousands of rands in development before they can even apply for this discretionary ministerial permission." ESI-Africa.com reports that Kuni warned that, unless the crisis is acknowledged and resolved urgently, "then all talk of growth and (job creation) is superfluous because without power the economy cannot grow."

Read the full article on www.esi-africa.com.

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