Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has hailed the signing of an agreement between Eskom and the Zululand Energy Terminal as a milestone. The agreement aims to unlock South Africa’s first large-scale liquefied natural gas imports and gas-to-power infrastructure in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal.
[Listen] Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, oversees the signing of gas supply heads of agreement between Eskom and Zululand Energy Terminal.
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Ramokgopa says the historic moment is a step towards securing the country’s energy security and unlocking investment.
“By 2030, in terms of the same IRP, we anticipate decommissioning about eight gigawatts of coal-fired electricity generation in the country, and that ought to be replaced by a flexible, dispatchable energy source that is also capable of supporting system stability. So the gas has been identified as that energy source.”
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