S. Africa Unshackles Private Sector in Bid to End Blackouts

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa turned to the private sector in a bid to end a 14-year-old power crisis that the government has failed to resolve.

Companies will be allowed to build power plants of any size without a license to meet their own needs and to sell it to the grid, he said. Ramaphosa in a televised address on Monday also announced the doubling of an upcoming power supply tender and said the owners of buildings and houses will be able to sell power from rooftop solar panels to the grid.