South Africa’s baseload IPP procurement moves into gear

Faced with likely delays connecting some renewables projects to the grid, South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a request for coal baseload independent power producers (IPPs) to register their projects by 25 July. A previous request for registration and information was issued in June 2013, but the new call has been designed in light of challenges connecting some projects from the third round of the renewable energy IPP procurement (REIPPP) programme.