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Eskom Carbon Credit Agreement enables financing for energy-efficient bulbs in South Africa via the Clean Development Mechanism, generating CER and VER credits, cutting power demand, supporting demand-side management, and lowering consumer energy bills.
Key Information
A deal to fund efficient bulbs via CDM, generating CER/VER credits to reduce demand and cut consumer energy costs.
- Bank risk contract develops CDM at no cost to Eskom.
- Generates CER and VER carbon assets for sale.
- Funds energy-efficient bulb rollout nationwide.
- Reduces grid load and supports demand-side management.
- Lowers household and business electricity bills.
South Africa's power utility Eskom signed its first Emissions Credits Purchase Agreement ECPA with BNP Paribas under the utility's broader power-saving plans.
The agreement would enable Eskom to purchase power-saving bulbs that would be used in South Africa, the continent's largest economy, as the power utility struggles to meet rising power demand in the country.
South Africa's national grid nearly collapsed in early 2008, prompting state backing for private producers across the power sector, forcing mines and smelters to shut and costing the country billions of dollars.
Eskom has since launched an ambitious power expansion program and adjusted its power procurement during lockdown but still needs to raise parts of the money required.
"As well as accessing carbon finance for Eskom, this project will have environmental and social benefits, reducing power demand in South Africa and reducing the energy bills of everyday consumers," the utility said in a statement.
Eskom said the carbon assets that would be created from the project would be Certified Emissions Reductions CER and Voluntary Emissions Reductions VER, while the utility also sought superior coal to stabilize supply.
"The bank entered into a risk-taking contract with Eskom, to develop the Clean Development Mechanism CDM project, amid a national clean coal debate among policymakers, at no cost to Eskom in exchange for an agreement to purchase carbon credits from Eskom," it added.
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