OP-ED: Nero fiddles, while the prospect of load shedding in South Africa continues By Chris Yelland
There seems little sign that the bureaucrats at the South African Department of Energy , the National Energy Regulator of South Africa , and the country’s national electricity utility, Eskom, have quite grasped the depth of the problem, or what is required to bring new generation capacity on stream quickly.
In times of rising electricity prices and utility supply constraints, SSEG provides benefits to the customer by reducing grid electricity usage costs and increasing security of supply, as well benefits to a constrained utility that is unable to meet electricity demand from its own centralised generation capacity and grid.
This new Schedule 2 exempted SSEG installations up to 1 MW from the burdensome requirement of having to be licensed by Nersa but instead requires grid-tied and off-grid SSEG installations up to 1 MW to be registered with Nersa following a new registration process still to be put in place. Instead, on 15 December 2018 Nersa issued a notice and commenced a public comment process over the festive season in respect of a proposed R200 registration fee for SSEG installations. Following from this, a R200 registration fee was decided upon by Nersa, but the R200 registration fee has never been gazetted and the affected SSEG sector has never been advised.
The regulations for SSEG installations that were published by the minister of energy on 8 June 2018 for public comment have still not been gazetted and no timeline has been provided for this.In the meantime, on 27 March 2019 Nersa formally advised EE Publishers that, to date, Nersa has not accepted a single application for registration of an SSEG installation up to 100 kW.
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