The Department of Energy (DoE) of South Africa has announced its plans to form a new round under the Renewable Energy IPP Procurement Programme for an additional 6,300 MW of renewable power projects. The DoE has just selected 13 preferred bidders for the "Window 4", which will add 1,121 MW of renewable power projects as of November 2016; under the Window 4 programme, a 25 MW biomass-fired power plant will be built (Ngodwana Energy project), along with five onshore wind parks (three 139-140 MW wind parks awarded to Enel, plus the 117 MW Golden Valley Wind project and the 140 MW Oyster Bay wind project), six solar power projects (Sirius Solar PV-1, Droogfontein-2, Dyason's Klip-1, Dyason's Klip-2, Konkoonsies-2, all rated 75 MW, and the 40 MW Aggeneys Solar), and a 5 MW hydropower project, Kruisvallei Hydro. So far, the DoE has approved 79 projects with a combined capacity of 5,243 MW.
In addition, the DoE has been engaged in a process to design a Gas-to-Power procurement programme for a combined 3,126 MW allocation. The Coal Base load IPP Programme will procure 2,500 MW of electricity from coal-fired power plants with bidders limited to bidding a maximum of 600 MW per project.
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