Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe and embattled power utility Eskom are struggling to contain the incoming "IPP tsunami".
President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier in the week announced that private companies will now be allowed to generate their own electricity of up to 100MW.
Ramaphosa made the announcement at press conference on Thursday, during which he said schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act would be amended to allow energy regulator Nersa to increase the private electricity generation threshold from 1MW to 100MW.
This means energy self-generation projects of less than 100MW would no longer have to go through the drawn-out Nersa licensing projects.
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