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DoE to spend R398m on SWH roll-out this year

3rd April 2015

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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The Department of Energy (DoE) has allocated R398-million to deploy an equal number of high- and low-pressure solar water heaters (SWHs) in the 2015/16 financial year, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has revealed in a Parliamentary reply.

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The DoE, which assumed responsibility for the national SWH programme from State-owned power utility Eskom in February, planned to accelerate the project during the current financial year, and was targeting the installation of 45 141 units in 2015/16, according to the DoE budget vote.

This compared with a target of 157 200 installations in 2014/15 and the 46 954 SWHs deployed in 2013/14, which fell short of the 80 000 target, owing to delays in finalising the implementing contract with Eskom and finalising the local content verification outcomes projected by the South African Bureau of Standards.

In 2011/12, 127 000 units had been installed and, in 2012/13, 111 188.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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