China and South Africa made power agreements at the BRICS summit

South African government is seizing the opportunity of the recent BRICS summit in its country to sign a raft of deals with China on Wednesday. The agreement will help South Africa to fix up its old-fashioned energy sector, which will extend to nuclear power plants to reduce the tense energy crisis.

The existing agreement with   Chinese power companies aside Brics summit in South Africa includes upgrades to the southern African country's electricity transmission and distribution networks.

The Minister for Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said "We are moving at the velocity of the fastest, we are not going to move to at the speed of the slowest," after signing the deals.

He added that "China's power transmission grid web, generation capacity and renewable energy plants are the largest in the world and were set up in a short time and it is this expertise and  South African Americans wanted to learn from this".

It was stated that South Africa's state utility Eskom has a power supply shortfall of around 4,000 megawatts (MW), accounting for a tenth of its installed capacity and resulting in record power cuts.

Its transmission capacity is highly constrained, disallowing any other power sources from coming online. The distribution of most of their capacity often burns out leading to long hours without power.

However, "China will help to extend the life of Eskom's coal-fired power plants, offer technology to cut emissions at a lower cost than available elsewhere globally and China might also set up transformer and solar PV panel manufacturing facilities in the country", the minister said. It will also help South Africa upgrade its nuclear power plant, he added.

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that China will supply emergency power equipment worth 167 million rands (US$ 8.9 million) and grant around 500 million rands for their power sector, without giving timelines.

金磚國家領導人會晤中南非簽署電力協議

南非政府正在抓住最近在南非舉行的金磚國家峰會的機會，週三與中國簽署了一系列協議。 該協議將幫助南非修復其老式能源部門，並將其延伸至核電站，以緩解緊張的能源危機。

除了南非金磚四國峰會之外，與中國電力公司達成的現有協議包括升級南部非洲國家的輸配電網絡。

電力部長 Kgosientsho Ramokgopa 在簽署協議後表示， “我們正在以最快的速度前進，我們不會以最慢的速度前進”。

他補充說， “中國的輸電網、發電能力和可再生能源發電廠是世界上最大的，而且是在很短的時間內建立起來的，正是這種專業知識，南非美國人希望從中學習”。

據稱，南非國家公用事業公司Eskom的電力供應缺口約為4000兆瓦（MW），佔其裝機容量的十分之一，導致創紀錄的停電。

其傳輸容量受到高度限制，不允許任何其他電源並網。 其大部分容量的分配經常會被燒毀，導致長時間斷電。

然而， “中國將幫助延長Eskom燃煤發電廠的壽命，以比全球其他地方更低的成本提供減排技術，中國還可能在該國建立變壓器和太陽能光伏板製造設施”，部長說。 他補充說，這還將幫助南非升級其核電站。

南非總統西里爾·拉馬福薩週二表示，中國將提供價值1.67 億蘭特（890 萬美元）的應急電力設備，並為其電力部門提供約5 億蘭特的資金，但沒有給出具體時間表。