South Africa Picks Seven Pre-Qualified Bidders for Grid Buildout
Upgrading South Africa’s transmission grid will underpin the government’s energy strategy.
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/BloombergSouth Africa’s electricity ministry selected seven groups of companies as pre-qualified bidders for the country’s 440 billion rand ($26 billion) transmission-grid expansion program.
Companies among the consortia include Adani Power Ltd.’s Middle East unit, Chinese firms State Grid International Development Ltd. and China Southern Power Grid International Co., and Electricite de France SA, the ministry said in a statement Monday in the capital, Pretoria.