South Africa: NERSA Commits to Inflation-Linked Electricity Price Hikes
01 August 2012: All Africa Online: On Wednesday, the National Energy Regulator (Nersa) confirmed to parliament’s portfolio committee on energy that they will adopt the DA’s proposals that future electricity tariff increases must be inflation-related. This is a serious breakthrough and recognit
RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE-Small Project IPPs Webinar
01 August 2012: Gerrit Kruyswijk from the IDC hosted a webinar on the 1st August 2012 on the Small Projects IPPs. The following documentation concerning the Small Project IPP Webinar can be viewed / downloaded here: IDC SPIPSS Webinar 1 Aug
Sunlight Goes To Waste: India's Grid Failure
02 August 2012: Renewable Energy World Online: India’s recent electric grid failure on July 30 and 31 has been determined the world’s largest blackout. This event will no doubt spur some movement toward efficiency and discipline. India requires new and innovative thinking and effectiveness thr
Notice of Parliamentary Meeting- 1 August 2012
01 August 2012: The Department of Energy with the with the Department of Public Enterprises, National Treasury and ESKOM will be having a meeting on the scenario building exercise and further due diligence on the future of the transmission sector vis-à-vis Independent System and Market Operator Bill [
SAPVIA Strategy Workshop: 09 July 2012
SAPVIA hosted a workshop where all members were invited to participate in formulating ideas and issues to make up SAPVIA’s 2012/13 strategy. The workshop was held in the Pepper Club Hotel Conference Centre, in Cape Town, on the 12thof July 2012 between 10am and 5pm. A total of 20 members participated. A
RFI: EPC contract for the Design, Supply & Installation of up to 150 MWp of Solar PV at various Eskom-owned sites across SA
Eskom publishes an RFI for potential suppliers / contractors to submit info for the design, supply and installation of up to 150 MWp of Solar PV. SAPVIA members can view the RFP here.
Eskom ‘should absorb’ weak municipal distributors
30 July 2012: Business Day Online: Weaker municipalities which distribute electricity should be incorporated into power utility Eskom, according to Accenture executive Ken Robinson. The poor state of SA’s electricity distribution industry has been a contentious subject for a long time now, with allegati
South Africa: Eskom Has Not Yet Finalised Application for Tariffs
30 July 2012: All Africa Online: Eskom has not yet determined its final application to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) with regards to its next tariff application, Eskom Chief Executive Officer Brian Dames said on Monday. “We have not determined our final application to the regulator.
South African PV Review
South Africa is set to become one of the biggest procurers of solar PV technology in the world in the next three years, and could possibly rank tenth in installed capacity by 2015 if all the utility scale PV projects in the pipeline come to fruition as foreseen in the government’s renewable energy p
SAPVIA 8th Management Committee Meeting: 11 July 2012
The agenda and minutes of SAPVIA's 8th management committee meeting are available to SAPVIA members for download.