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outh Africas renewables
sector hopes intensive
lobbying can persuade
its government to avoid another
self-inflicted policy wound, just
when it seemed the countrys
clean-energy ambitions were back
on track.
The South African wind and
solar industries fear a three-year
renewables procurement gap
proposed in a draft version of the
governments Integrated Resource
Plan (IRP) could seriously
undermine supply chains already
rattled by a policy-related market
lockdown that was only lifted
earlier this year.
The issue risks taking the
gloss off an IRP South
Africas overarching 10-year
roadmap for matching power
supply and demand in 202030 whose headline figures
look highly favourable for the
renewable energy sector and
were widely welcomed when the
draft document was unveiled in
August.
The draft IRP foresees 8.1GW
of additional wind power and
5.67GW of new solar PV in
the next decade. By 2030 that
would bring the two renewable
sources to 11.44GW and 7.96GW
respectively, and a projected 25%
combined share of South Africas
total power fleet by capacity.
The draft IRP also kicked into
touch South Africas new-build
nuclear programme, marking a
decisive break by newly appointed
President Cyril Ramaphosa
with the energy policy of his
predecessor, Jacob Zuma.
However, examination of
the proposed timetable soon
set alarm bells ringing over
the Department of Energys
suggestion that no procurement
of renewables would take place in
the three years covering 2022-24,
with the additional wind and solar
capacity taken forward only in the
final five years of the decade.
Commentators told Recharge
the prospect of another halt to
procurement is the last thing the
South African wind and solar
supply chains need. They are
only just preparing to ramp back
up again after the three-year
stand-off with state utility Eskom
that froze the market when it
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Another selfinflicted wound
in South Africa?
South African
President Cyril
Ramaphosa
refused to sign power-purchase
agreements (PPAs) previously
awarded under South Africas
Renewable Energy Independent
Power Producers Procurement
Programme (REIPPPP).
Eskoms intransigence seriously
dented international investor
confidence in the South African
renewables programme until
Ramaphosas newly appointed
energy minister, Jeff Radebe,
Nordex turbines in
South Africa
ended the impasse and swiftly
ensured signing of the PPAs soon
after the new government took
power in early 2018. Radebes
action unblocked about 2.2GW
of mainly wind and solar projects
and billions of dollars worth
of investment. His subsequent
announcement of a new 1.8GW
REIPPPP procurement round
scheduled for November appeared
to confirm the good times
were back for South African
renewables.
The South African Wind Energy
Association (SAWEA) fears the
procurement hiatus contained in
the draft IRP means the sector
would effectively run out of
steam again, once the crop of
projects commissioned under
the current REIPPPP awards
have worked their way through
to commissioning over the next
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three years or so. Along with others in the renewables lobby, it hopes the 60-day consultation window that opened after the publication of the draft IRP can be used to Boom and bust procurement can be very damaging to the development of a localised supply chain, SAWEA tells Recharge in a statement.
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