Vodacom to Soon Source its Electricity from Independent Power Producers

In a recent announcement, Vodacom South Africa disclosed that they are going to be launching a pilot with Eskom in an effort to source its electricity from renewable independent power producers.

This is a monumental move forward to assist Eskom and South Africa to solve the energy crisis, which proves our greatest threat to an economic recovery.

It is our belief that the energy crisis in South Africa can be solved with the assistance of private sector participation and enablement — this solution does just that, and can be fast-tracked and scaled to address the shortfall of generation capacity within two years.

Through Vodacom’s partnership with Eskom, we will be able to meet our 2025 commitments to source 100% of our electricity from renewable sources across all our operations.

Shameel Joosub, CEO, Vodacom Group