South Africa Seeks Bidders for $22 Billion Grid Expansion Plan

South Africa is seeking proposals to shortlist bidders for a 390-billion-rand ($22 billion) grid expansion project to bolster the country’s energy security.

The country’s Department of Electricity and Energy invited “experienced and committed” groups to participate in a pre-qualification process for transmission projects, it said in an advertisement. The plan is to build 14,218 kilometers (8,835-mile) of transmission lines over the next decade.

“The private sector will design, finance, construct, operate and maintain” transmission lines and substations, it said. Bidders must have the “necessary technical expertise, financial capacity and proven experience required to deliver transmission capacity at significant scale and ...