Eskom has imposed conditions to access the national grid on 1,850 megawatts worth of projects in South Africa that developers including Karpowership and Electricite de France have struggled to complete since they were awarded in March 2021.
The move comes as Eskom has warned that load shedding is on the rise. It has warned this could reach Stage 8 in the coming winter, in a worst-case scenario.
Eskom Holdings is considering buying electricity from a Karpowership plant to be located offshore Mozambique after declining to sign agreements to procure power from facilities the Turkish company planned to moor off the South African coast.
The company won the work on the basis of generating emergency power. However, the contract would have seen Eskom commit to a 20-year purchase agreement. There has been widespread criticism of the way in which the government awarded the contracts.
Karpowership SA is appealing against the decision by the South African government to reject its floating power plant plans.
South Africa has rejected three applications from Karpowership on environmental grounds.
DNG Power has objected to its disqualification in South Africa’s emergency power tender, alleging wrongdoing by a number of parties.
Karpowership’s first LNG-to-power project is coming together with sea trials in Singapore starting today, ahead of deployment to Senegal in the coming weeks.
Countries that need power, need power now – and Karadeniz’s Powerships may just be the fastest moving answer to this particular demand.
Ghana has made considerable progress in distributing power to its citizens, but talks are under way in order to make this process more sustainable.
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has ceremonially launched the generation of electricity, using gas from the Sankofa field.