Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state power utility, received more than 321 applications from renewable-energy project developers wanting to connect to the company’s grid, Kannan Lakmeeharan, managing director of operations and planning, said in a speech in Johannesburg today.

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