Eskom accelerating the deployment of renewable energy solutions [SOUND]

# Eskom says it remains focused on a balanced and diversified energy mix based on existing coal and nuclear and introducing gas for baseload power, as well as renewables, energy storage systems, and pumped hydro. The power utility has issued a tender seeking private partners for a separate Renewable Energy Business, to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy solutions. Eskom’s spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena, says they have an executable initial pipeline of at least two gigawatts of clean energy projects by 2026: