{"id":653131,"date":"2026-06-09T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=653131"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:33:33","slug":"eskom-to-build-32000mw-of-new-renewable-energy-in-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/653131-eskom-to-build-32000mw-of-new-renewable-energy-in-14-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to build 32,000MW of new renewable energy in 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, said it will deliver on targets to add 32,000MW of new renewable energy through its newly formed Eskom Green division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that it launched Eskom Green to accelerate the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects and support larger customers in achieving their energy transition goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Eskom Green is a utility-scale renewable energy business that rapidly accelerates the options available to South Africa’s industries to decarbonise,” said Group Executive for Renewables, Rivoningo Mnisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The business is set to increase the supply of renewable energy to enable customers to lower their carbon footprint in their energy consumption.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskom said that Eskom Green’s contribution would be essential to South Africa’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for rapidly adding renewable power to the national grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The utility outlined build targets of 5,600MW by 2030, 21,000MW by 2035 and 32,000MW of new renewable power generation capacity by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The IRP 2025 is pivotal in the decision for Eskom to enter the utility-scale renewable energy market segment,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Eskom Green will have about 6GW of carbon-free electricity available up to 2030, as a result of Eskom’s broad pipeline of renewables and storage initiatives currently under development.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Marokane, Eskom Group CEO, said that Eskom Green was built on decades of power generation skills and expertise and reflected the successful adaptation of new technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have been playing in this space for some time, and we are now putting a stake in the ground \u2014 this is a development that South Africa can be proud of,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new division is currently under Eskom Holdings as part of the organisation’s unbundling strategy. However, Eskom said it would eventually become an independent, wholly owned subsidiary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It will be separated from Eskom to become a wholly owned subsidiary with an independent board, subject to the necessary governance, regulatory and shareholder approvals,” the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskom Green targets 6GW of new capacity by 2030<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lethabo Power Station in the Free State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eskom said it wanted Eskom Green to be the primary energy provider for customers seeking renewable energy at scale in South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Eskom Green will use its own renewable generation, supplemented by storage and firming arrangements that support round-the-clock supply,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The pricing determination will be clear and transparent, where the wholesale tariff is passed through to the customer, at cost.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network, wheeling, and other regulated wholesale charges levied by transmission and distribution operators will not be absorbed by Eskom Green and will not be marked up, it said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, customers will receive the charges as a separate line item from the price of energy that Eskom Green generates and sells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This way, the customer has full transparency on what is paid for energy and what is paid for network use,” the utility explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that Eskom Green will initially target large industrial demand in the mining and manufacturing sectors and direct Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to provide solutions to decarbonise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second phase of the offering will serve the Eskom Distribution market, municipalities, the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM), and the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funding for the initial phases has already been provisioned in Eskom’s approved capital expenditure programme and is expected to be supported by on-balance-sheet funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Eskom Green’s launch, 17 high-priority projects were identified for implementation across the utility’s existing coal-fired power stations, with a plan to use existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This approach of co-locating renewable and conventional generation will be extended to additional sites, with the next project planned for the Komati Power Station,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These projects leverage existing infrastructure to support faster deployment, improve cost efficiencies, and strengthen grid resilience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2030, Eskom Green is targeting 6,000MW of new renewable energy capacity added to the grid, including at least 2,000MW of renewable and pumped storage projects to advance from 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also expects to start seeing generation at developments such as the 75MW Lethabo solar PV project in the Free State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s state-owned power utility has launched Eskom Green, saying it would add 5.6GW of new renewable energy by 2030 and 21GW by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341213,"featured_media":645431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27995],"tags":[31156,102614,82379,81767,1573,105802,39358,57336],"class_list":["post-653131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-dan-marokane","tag-eskom-green","tag-komati-power-station","tag-lethabo-power-station","tag-renewable-energy","tag-rivoningo-mnisi","tag-solar-pv","tag-unbundling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653136,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653131\/revisions\/653136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}