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CT set to buy electricity from businesses, households - CT's energetic mayor using Level 6 crisis to achieve energy independence

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The City of Cape Town is poised to use SA's electricity crisis to abrogate power over electricity supply long centralised in Pretoria - and intends to soon be buying solar panel-generated electricity from businesses and households. Its 35-year-old mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, who campaigned ahead of last year's local elections on a promise to end loadshedding, says the unprecedented disruption of Eskom's supply of electricity has opened a legal door he intends kicking down. In this interview with BizNews.com's Alec Hogg, he outlines how the city will lead the way for other South African organisations to achieve independence by overturning SA's archiac laws on energy procurement. It is a watershed, he reckons, in the national devolution of political power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Jul 2022 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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