Browsing by Subject "Energy policy--South Africa"

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    Informal electricity re-selling: entrepreneurship or exploitation?
    (Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town., 2014) Franks, Lana; Prasad, Gisela
    South African energy policies have supported universal electricity access since 1994. On 26 June 2013 cabinet approved a new electrification plan which defined universal access to electricity as 97% of all households having access. The plan stated that all households would have an electricity connection by 2025.
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    South Africa's rapid electrification programme: policy, institutional, planning, financing and technical innovations
    (Elsevier, 2008) Bekker, Bernard; Gaunt, Trevor; Marquard, Andrew; Eberhard, Anton
    This paper documents South Africa’s electrification programme from the late 1980s to the present. The primary aim of the paper is to present the reader with an overview of the policy, institutional, planning, financing and technological developments and innovations that resulted in more than 5 million households receiving access to electricity between 1990 and 2007. Key aspects include the way in which a period of political change and policy disruption were essential to the programme’s initiation, and the critical role played by organisations and individuals outside of national government in helping shape new electrification policies and strategies. In addition, the paper identifies the contribution of technology development in cost reduction and achieving the social aims of the programme. Several lessons may be drawn from the institutional and planning arrangements that the South African programme has developed, the significance of the development of appropriate cost-driven technical innovations and standards, and the acknowledgement of the social function of electrification and its funding from the fiscus (rather than through cross-subsidies).