South African miners have increased their efforts to bring on new solar and wind generation, renewables company JUWI said, as they seek to cut costs and emissions and address an electricity crisis that has hit their output and the wider economy.
this year, when production from the world number two producer Russia has been constrained as a result of its invasion of Ukraine.
JUWI South Africa, a unit of the German-headquartered renewable energy project developer, has received "a wave of requests" from local mines, its Managing Director Richard Doyle told Reuters. "This is driven partly by the energy crisis, partly by increases in electricity pricing and a strong global decarbonisation drive," Doyle said.
He added JUWI is developing 400 megawatts of renewable energy projects for South African mines and said energy sector reforms announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa last year, which included the removal of licencing restrictions, had given momentum toSouth African mining companies are developing a combined 6,500 megawatts of renewable power, the country's Minerals Council said. They are expected to generate 2,294 megawatts of their own power by 2025, with more expected onstream by 2030.
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