S President Cyril Ramaphosa's New Energy Plan: Highlights (1)

1.
Seeing that Eskom increases its budget allocated for critical maintenance over the next 12 months;
Buying surplus capacity from existing independent power producers;
The utility will import power from neighbouring countries in southern Africa that have more electricity capacity than they require through the Southern African Power Pool arrangement.

2. Doubling the amount of new generation capacity procured through Bid Window 6 for wind and solar power from 2,600MW to 5,200MW.

3. Seeing that Eskom develops rules and a pricing structure — known as a “feed-in tariff” — for all commercial and residential installations on its network that would enable homeowners and businesses to sell surplus power to Eskom.

4. Appointing boards for the transmission and generation entities that would fall under Eskom.