{"id":425424,"date":"2021-07-12T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T04:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425424"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:03:11","slug":"durban-1st-city-in-south-africa-to-have-private-energy-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/durban-1st-city-in-south-africa-to-have-private-energy-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban: 1st city in South Africa to have private energy contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethekwini, the South African municipality that includes the port city of Durban, has become the first in the country to seek proposals for private power generation. <\/p>\n<p>The municipality on Friday released a request for information for the supply of 400 megawatts of power in a bid to ease reliance on national utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which has subjected the country to intermittent power outages for more than a decade. It will also allow the city of 3.8 million people, which houses Africa\u2019s largest port, to get more of its energy from renewable sources as Eskom relies almost entirely on coal.<\/p>\n<p>Ethekwini is seeking a \u201cdiverse mix of sustainable, dispatchable and reliable power generation technologies,\u201d the municipality said on its website,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethekwini, the South African municipality that includes the port city of Durban, has become the first in the country to seek proposals for private power generation. The municipality on Friday released a request for information for the supply of 400 megawatts of power in a bid to ease reliance on national utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which has subjected the country to intermittent power outages for more than a decade. It will also allow the city of 3.8 million people, which houses Africa\u2019s largest port, to get more of its energy from renewable sources as Eskom relies almost entirely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}