BY THEMBA ZWANE
MHLUME– The Eswatini Royal Sugar Corporation (ResCorp) is currently in advanced talks with the regulator, Eswatini Energy Regulatory Authority (ESERA) and Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC) to alleviate the ever increase cost of electricity.
This, they will achieve by giving ResCorp a contract to generate and supply to the EEC a certain percentage of which is imported from ESKOM in South Africa.
This initiative, was disclosed at the ResCorp tour by members of the Fourth Estate on 6 March 2026.
This development initiative is called the
Large Scale Power Generation Project. Currently, a detailed feasibility study is currently being carried out. The goal according to ResCorp experts is to have the project up and running by at least the year 2030.
“Now we are in negotiations with the regulator ESERA and EEC negoting Power Purchase Agreement (PPA),” said one of the site managers during the tour.
He disclosed that meanwhile, they want to generate electricity for ResCorp. The plan is then to later initiate the bigger project where they will also use biomass in the generation of electricity. He noted that talks with both ESERA and EEC were at an advanced stage and these include the quantity of electricity they plan to supply to EEC and the stipulated period in which they will be able to supply the agreement quantity of electricity.
It was further noted that about 7000 solar panels had been erected at one of the electricity generation sites at ResCorp. The solar panels will generate electricity intended to feed to the ResCorp.
On another note, one of the site managers and contractor representative explained to editors and journalists that solar panels with micro cracks were very dangerous, actually, fatal in severe instances, as one could be electrocuted when in contact. The members of the media had joined ResCorp personnel on a more than 2km tour for the day.
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