S.Africa picks preferred bidders for emergency power tender, minister says

Alma Metals

18/03/2021 14:18

CAPE TOWN, March 18 (Reuters) - South Africa's government
has selected eight preferred bidders, including Turkey's
Karpowership, to provide emergency electricity and help prop up
the country's ailing power supply, Energy Minister Gwede
Mantashe said on Thursday.
    The tender for 2,000 megawatts (MW), launched two years ago
when South Africa suffered some of the worst power cuts in a
decade, aimed to find the cheapest and quickest options to ease
a shortage that has cost the continent's most industrialised
economy billions of dollars.

 (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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