Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program

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Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program , REIPPPP (German: "Program for the creation of independent producers of renewable energies") is a government program that has existed in South Africa since 2011 and is intended to promote the renewable energies sector independently of the state company Eskom .

Framework

Around the year 2000 , about 85 percent of South Africa's generation of electrical energy was based on caloric power plants that were supplied from the country's extensive coal deposits. With the global discussion about global warming caused by an increase in CO 2 in the atmosphere, the South African government in its English South African White Paper on Renewable Energy (Department of Energy - DOE) from 2003 prepared the political path for the In 2010 the English Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) announced the inclusion of solar and wind energy with an installed capacity of 17.8 GW in national energy generation by 2030.

Additional impetus in South Africa's energy policy was provided by the nationwide bottlenecks in the energy supply in the course of 2010. The state-owned energy producer Eskom has been able to cover the energy demand since 2007 in less. Lack of maintenance, failure to invest and errors in government practice in the energy sector resulted in a decline in energy production. Due to the decline in electricity generation, electricity imports increased significantly by 18.6% in 2014 compared to 2013. The completion of the two coal-fired power plants Medupi and Kusile , despite cost overruns and long delays, was the focus of Eskom's management in order to avert the energy crisis.

The 52nd national conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Polokwane in December 2007 , at which a programmatic setting in favor of private initiative in the energy generation sector was decided, is considered to be the political cornerstone for the realignment of the South African energy sector. At the 53rd National Conference in December 2012 in Mangaung , this orientation was confirmed again.

implementation

Sun intensity in South Africa (1994–2013) in kWh / m 2
Khi Solar One solar thermal power plant

At the same time as the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban (COP 17), the REIPPP program was introduced in order to make the objectives of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2010-2030) effective in practice.

The programs to promote new forms of energy generation stipulate that Eskom does not have to pay its own investment costs and only pays remuneration to them when they are fed in by small producers. By March 2018, 62 projects connected to the national transmission network and an installed capacity of just under 3.8 GW had helped to protect the country from the consequences of a load shedding when there were again bottlenecks with coal-based energy generation and the lack of cooling water . This new policy also aims to strengthen entrepreneurial skills in the black population, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The first pilot projects were undertaken with two financially weak rural communities as operators of alternative energy generation plants, which can expect dividends of 29.3 billion rand over a period of 20 years thanks to the feed-in tariff from Eskom .

By the beginning of 2018, companies in the renewable energies sector had created around 35,700 full-time jobs in mostly structurally weak regions and initiated financial expenditures of R 766 million for education, health, social and commercial developments. Since 2012, 600 scholarships have been awarded to provide young people with a higher education and to support local schools and smallholders.

The program is linked to South Africa's climate protection goals, according to which a reduction of 22.5 million tons of carbon dioxide and a saving of 26.6 million cubic meters of water is intended.

The program provides support in the following areas of renewable energies:

The South African government commissioned the British consulting firm Mott MacDonald as leading project management and as the most important technical advisor in the field of wind, solar and hydropower projects within the framework of the Renewable IPP Procurement Program . The scope of duties included the nationwide coordination of the most important government agencies as well as legal, financial and technical advice in the preparation of the multi-billion rand program.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Republic of South Africa, Department of Energy: Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program . on www.energy.gov.za (English)
  2. ↑ James Larmuth, Alberto Cuellar: An Updated Review of South African CSP Projects Under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP) . AIP Conference Proceedings 2126, 040001 (2019), online at www.aip.scitation.org (English, PDF document p. 2)
  3. ↑ Elias Phaahla: The state of electricity in South Africa - Part I: The problems in Eskom . Posted by the Helen Suzman Foundation on August 5, 2015 at www.hsf.org.za (English)
  4. ↑ Reuters: Factbox - S.Africa's power crisis: overhauling state utility Eskom . News from October 29, 2019 on www.cnbc.com (English)
  5. ↑ a b c d e Republic of South Africa, Department of Energy: Renewable energy independent power producer (REIPP) agreements will benefit South Africa in the transition to an environmentally sustainable economic future. Opinion Piece by Minister Jeff Radebe, July 27, 2018 . on www.energy.gov.za (English)
  6. ^ Republic of South Africa, Department of Energy, National Treasury, DBSA : Renewable IPP Procurement Program . on www.ipp-renewables.co.za (English)
  7. ^ Mott MacDonald: South Africa . on www.mottmac.com (English)
  8. ^ Mott MacDonald: Renewable Energy Power Producer Procurement, South Africa . on www.mottmac.com (English)