Hundreds of potential respondents to a request for information (RFI) \u2013 issued in December by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) for supply and demand solutions to South Africa\u2019s prevailing power deficit \u2013 descended on Centurion on Wednesday for a briefing ahead of the submission deadline of January 31. In what became an almost standing-room-only affair, senior representatives from the Independent Power Producer (IPP) Office \u2013 Maduna Ngobeni, Pervelan Govender and Lena Mangondo \u2013 urged potential developers to provide fresh \u00a0and detailed information on short-term, as well as medium- to long-term, projects that could assist in helping to close an immediate supply shortfall of some 3\u00a0000 MW and, in time, restore system stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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