Renewable Energy Auctions provides an overview of renewable energy auctions globally, focusing on the Global South, since this is where auctions have been pioneered and provided most transformative results. Renewable energy auctions have become the dominant method for contracting utility-scale renewable energy projects, in large part due to the cost-efficient tariffs secured through this method. The ascent of auctions has been particularly rapid and transformative in the Global South, where many countries have secured renewable energy supplies at record-breaking prices. This book analyses the experiences of frontier auction markets in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and India, with the aim of improving how auctions are designed and implemented globally. The book goes beyond the topic of auction design - which is concerned with the micro-economics of design choices - to include auction implementation. Across ten chapters, the authors argue that choices around the auction implementing institution and the procurement process are overlooked in most publications on the subject, yet this is often a key factor for determining outcomes. Moving beyond the program level of analysis (auction design and implementation), the book includes both country and project level factors' impacts on auction outcomes, ultimately highlighting that successful price and investment outcomes are dependent upon integration of all three levels of auction design and implementation.

Renewable Energy Auctions: Lessons from the Global South

Business & Money

Eberhard, Anton

Kruger, Wikus

Economics

Oxford University Press

Poverty and Power: Energy and the South African State

Book by Eberhard, Anton, Horen, Clive Van

Pluto Press

Examines the opportunities for the democratic state in South Africa to make improvements in social equity and economic development. The themes are explored through a case study of the energy sector in South Africa as it seeks to widen access to improved energy services for all people.

Offering detailed, up-to-date, and original research into power-sector reform and regulation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Namibia, and Ghana, this study is derived from a three-year peer review and learning process that involved senior executives at the electricity regulatory agencies in each of the countries. Among the individuals and institutions interviewed are energy ministers, utility chief executives, IPP chief executives, financiers, media organizations, and industry and consumer groups. The book contains an analysis of the knowledge and shared experiences gathered in Africa by African scholars. For each of the six countries highlighted, absorbing, lucid, and concise chapters discuss the historical evolution of the power sector, the development of power-sector reform policy and its implementation, the entry of IPPs and emergency electric suppliers, the performance of state-owned utilities, and independent regulation of the power sector.

Power-Sector Reform and Regulation in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Namibia and Ghana

Engineering & Transportation

Kapika, Joseph

Engineering

HSRC Press

Inadequate electricity services pose a major impediment to reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Simply put, Africa does not have enough power. Despite the abundant low-carbon and low-cost energy resources available to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region’s entire installed electricity capacity, at a little over 80 GW, is equivalent to that of the Republic of Korea. Looking ahead, Sub-Saharan Africa will need to ramp-up its power generation capacity substantially. The investment needed to meet this goal largely exceeds African countries’ already stretched public finances. Increasing private investment is critical to help expand and improve electricity supply. Historically, most private sector finance has been channeled through privately financed independent power projects (IPP), supported by nonrecourse or limited recourse loans, with long-term power purchase agreements with the state utility or another off-taker. Between 1990 and 2014, IPPs have spread across Sub-Saharan Africa and are now present in 17 countries. Currently, there are 125 IPPs, with an overall installed capacity of 10.7 GW and investments of $24.6 billion. However, private investment could be much greater and less concentrated. South Africa alone accounts for 67 IPPs, 4.3 GW of capacity and $14.4 billion of investments; the remaining projects are concentrated in a handful of countries. The objective of this study is to evaluate the experience of IPPs and identify lessons that can help African countries attract more and better private investment. At the core of this analysis is a reflection on whether IPPs have in fact benefited Sub-Saharan Africa, and how they might be improved. The analysis is based primarily on in depth case studies, carried out in five countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, which not only have the most numerous but also among the most extensive experience with IPPs.

Independent Power Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Five Key Countries (Directions in Development - Energy and M)

The World Bank

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Renewable Energy Auctions: Lessons from the Global South

Poverty and Power: Energy and the South African State

Poverty and Power: Energy and the South African State

Power-Sector Reform and Regulation in Africa: Lessons from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Namibia and Ghana

Independent Power Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Five Key Countries (Directions in Development - Energy and M)