Communities, local producers to increase involvement in SWH roll-out
The Department of Energy (DoE) aimed to increase the involvement of local community members and local producers and manufacturers in the maintenance and supply, respectively, of the solar water heater (SWH) roll-out programme.
A new SWH contracting model enabled State-owned power utility Eskom to enter into supply contracts with local manufacturers to produce SWHs with 70% local content.
The development of a localised SWH maintenance programme, under the new contracting model approach, would “be biased” towards employing local community members in a maintenance team.
“[This] provides the local industry with much-needed investment certainty to establish local manufacturing facilities,” Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said in response to a Parliamentary question.
The South African Bureau of Standards would verify the local content.
This followed the completion of a designated study for SWHs, undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry since the 2011 signing of the Green Economy Accord, which aimed to confirm available local capacity and develop recommendations for improving the local content of the value chain.
In Peters’ Budget Vote in May, she commented that all units being installed through the fiscus-funded programme must be locally manufactured.
“Our government is decisively intervening in this programme to extract its maximum localisation and local job creation potential,” she stated.
The programme, which aimed to roll-out one-million SWHs by the end of 2014, had, to date, seen to the installation of over 350 000 SWHs. This was 100 000 units higher than May 2012.
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