Local Renewable Energy Supplier Suntech Solar Power South Africa has launched the proceedings in the high court. The firm aims to interdict and set aside the selective and unlawful assumptions granted by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) regarding the current round of the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP).
Before recent decisions made by the DTIC, the company stood to participate in the RMIPPPP projects by supplying solar panels to preferred bidders (learn more).
However, it argued in a statement on September 9 that the “selective and unlawful” exemptions granted by the DTIC in favour of two suppliers, ARTsolar and Seraphim Solar South Africa, now “effectively excludes all other local solar photovoltaic (PV) module suppliers from competitively participating in the RMIPPPP and forces preferred bidders to procure from ARTsolar and Seraphim and its Chinese partners, LONGi Solar and Seraphim China”.
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