Commercial-Scale Renewable Energy in South Africa and its Progress to Date
dc.contributor.author | Baker, Lucy | |
dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-28T15:26:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-28T15:26:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Baler, L. (2017) Commercial-Scale Renewable Energy in South Africa and its Progress to Date in Pueyo, A. and Bawakyillenuo, S. (Eds) Green Power for Africa: Overcoming the Main Constraints, IDS Bulletin 48 5-6, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13390 | |
dc.description.abstract | While South Africa’s electricity sector is heavily coal-dependent, the country has recently become an attractive destination for commercial‑scale renewable energy investment. This article examines ongoing developments and challenges to the country’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers’ Procurement Programme (RE IPPPP), from inception as a feed-in tariff in 2007, to its launch as a competitive bidding programme in 2011. The article discusses how the programme emerged out of a set of national conditions combined with international trends in renewable energy investment and technology development. The programme’s successes include progressive requirements for socioeconomic development. However, since 2016, South Africa’s renewable energy industry has faced complex challenges, including resistance by the electricity utility Eskom, itself embroiled within scandals of state capture and corruption, as well as the ability of Eskom’s transmission grid to integrate renewable energy generation. Subsequent delays to the programme have generated uncertainty for stakeholders and the future of the industry. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;48 5-6 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Children and Youth | en |
dc.title | Commercial-Scale Renewable Energy in South Africa and its Progress to Date | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Green Transformations | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2017.165 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-11-28 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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