Cape Town tenders for solar in bid to escape dependence on troubled utility

The city authority wants a developer to construct a 7 MW solar project for it as part of a push to widen its sources of electricity, and says clean energy will be cheaper than - largely coal-fired - grid power from Eskom.The campaign by Cape Town to wrest control of South Africa's municipal electricity supply away from the nation's debt-stricken national utility has prompted the city to tender for its first grid-connected solar power plant. The planned solar project, in Atlantis, to the north of South Africa's legislative capital, would be operational in 2024 and would supply 14.7 GWh of clean ...

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