Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says they are in negotiations with Vodacom, and Vodacom has called on companies to join the utility’s 100 megawatts from 100 companies push.
Vodacom South Africa says it will soon launch a pilot with Eskom to source all its electricity from renewable independent power producers.
Vodacom said its operating situation is unique due to the complexities of having over 15,000 distributed low-voltage sites across the country with linkage to 168 municipalities. “They want to start their own green power generation for their towers, but how do they get the electricity to the towers? That is where we will come in,” Eskom CEO André De RuyterDe Ruyter explained that although Eskom is executing a plan to rent out land on which private power producers can build renewable energy generation, this takes time that South Africa simply does not have.
“This is a monumental move forward to assist Eskom and South Africa to solve the energy crisis, which proves our greatest threat to an economic recovery,” said Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub. “Through Vodacom’s partnership with Eskom, we will be able to meet our 2025 commitments to source 100% of our electricity from renewable sources across all our operations.”South Africa’s cellular carriers have struggled to keep their mobile networks operational during the higher levels of load-shedding this past week.
“The key thing is that during stage 5 and stage 6, there isn’t 12 to 18 hours between load-shedding to allow those batteries to recharge.”
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