- The City of Cape Town’s Sustainable Energy Markets Department has published a Request for Information (RFI) to assess capability for contracting on Waste to Energy Project.
The purpose of the Request for Information (RFI) is to implement a fair and transparent process for obtaining information on energy trading platforms to support the City of Cape Town (CCT) in line with its strategic objectives, business needs as well as its legislative and regulatory context.
Load-shedding (instituted intermittently since 2008) and significant increases in bulk electricity costs over the last number of years have had a detrimental effect on both the CCT’s economy and its consumers. This has resulted in the CCT committing to enhance energy security through various means, thus the CCT has explored own-build and IPP procurement approaches at various scales.
The CCT intends to further diversify its energy sources through alternative procurement strategies and include Waste to Energy IPPs because it is seen to be a key technology coupling the waste management and electricity sectors.
Link to the RFI notice HEREÂ
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Author: Bryan Groenendaal
