CCRED - Regulatory Entities Capacity Building Project Review of Regulators Orientation and Performance:

Ultimately, the success of the REIPP procurement programme has enable significant changes in the electricity supply industry by facilitating the entry of IPPs in the generation market and the development of renewable energy in the country. [...] It reviews the evolution of renewable energy policy and the role of the institutions that have shaped the development of the sector, conducting a detailed critical analysis of the performance of South Africa’s programmes aimed at developing renewable energy, with a focus on the existing scheme. [...] Page 19 of 98 market) owing to the sustained control of Eskom over the electricity supply industry through the holding of most of the generation capacity (Pickering, 2010) and the limitation of the role of IPPs to government-run procurement programmes. [...] Key Players in the Regulation of Renewable Energy Following on the understanding of the role that renewable energy technologies play in South Africa, this section introduces the institutions responsible for the regulation of the sector, most notably the DoE, Eskom and NERSA, and their central role in energy policy formulation, electricity planning and regulation. [...] The National Energy Regulator of South Africa The electricity sector was one of the first infrastructure sectors to be subjected to independent economic regulation with the establishment of the National Electricity Regulator (NER) in 1995 as the successor of the Electricity Control Board (Steyn, 2012).