Today our guest is Joshua Low, Group exhibitions Director, Messe Frankfurt South Africa.

• Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced that the City of Cape Town would be opening its first round in its process to procure power from Independent Power Producers.
• The mayor said the tender documents for this procurement are already available and over the coming months, the City would procure up to 300MW of renewable energy.
• Following this move to procure new capacity in the first tender process, was a second tender for dispatchable generation projects over 20MW which would be brought online in a short space of time.
• The mayor made this announcement at The Solar Power Africa conference happening in Cape Town with participants looking at power solutions and and developments in the renewable energy market.
• This conference is of particular interest to SA with Eskom regularly implementing load shedding as it struggles to generate enough power supply for the country.