23 Nov 2011In this paper, Nancy Dubosse and Richard Calland argue that there is an urgent need to bring strategic and administrative coherence to the multiple sources of climate finance, and to ...

14 Nov 2011This policy paper, from Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme, aims to identify ways to strengthen country-led approaches and to increase national participation in climate activities at all levels. Download the full ...

21 Jan 2011This is a submission by WWF-SA (Living Planet Unit) in response to the request for public comments on the draft Electricity Regulations on New Generation Capacity dated 30 November 2010 ...

21 Jan 2011Submission to the Department of Energyconcerning theDraft Electricity Regulations on New Generation Capacitypromulgated for comment in Government Gazette No. 33819dated 30 November 2010, in Notice No. R.1130. A common thread ...

21 Jan 2011Letter Compiled by the Southern African Faith Communities'Environement Institute (SAFCEI) to the Department of Energy SAFCEI would like to provide some comment on the proposed New Generation regulations in the ...

17 Jan 2011In October the South African government announced a R150 billion, 5 000-MW solar park to be built in the Northern Cape. Analysts have questioned why this project did not appear ...

17 Jan 2011Several processes are underway to address the energy challenges of South Africa's future. There is an imperative to quite literally, keep the lights on, but the decisions currently being taken will ...

10 Dec 2010Revision 2 of 2010Submission prepared by:Hilton Trollip, Senior Research Consultant htrollip@idasa.org.zaSmita Nakhooda, Senior Research Consultant snakhooda@idasa.org.zaGary Pienaar, Senior Researcher gpienaar@idasa.org.zaElectricity Governance Initiative of South AfricaEconomic Governance ProgrammeWe acknowledge with appreciation ...

30 Nov 2010REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICARegulation Gazette No. 9430 Vol. 545 Pretoria, 30 November 2010 No. 33819Electricity Regulation Act No. 4 of 2006Electricity Regulations on New Generation Capacity

29 Nov 2010Cape Town, 29 November 2010Gary PienaarEconomic Governance Programme The significance and extent of the implications are undoubtedly clearer to those participating in these public hearings, than they are to most ...

25 Oct 2010Listen to podcast of Muna Lakhani of the Institute for Zero Waste Africa (IZWA), he speaks about 'Why we need to shift to a future sustainable economy.

20 Oct 2010Electricity regulators in the rapidly growing emerging economies of India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico face similar challenges. Clean energy options are supporting their efforts to secure adequate electricity to ...

19 Oct 2010By Abigail Knox Idasa leads a consortium of South African civil society organisations and research institutes in the local chapter of the Electricity Governance Initiative (EGI). The consortium aims to ...

19 Aug 2010The Electricity Governance Initiative’s latest newsletter has assessment reports from South Africa, Brazil, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as an overview of the next steps the initiative is taking to ...

12 Aug 2010In Keeping the Lights On? A Review of the Draft Assumptions Underpinning South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan 2, Gary Pienaar and Smita Nakhooda note that decisions around how much electricity ...

10 Aug 2010The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2) for the electricity sector that is presently under development is a critically important process. The IRP will determine whether South Africa has adequate electricity ...

05 Aug 2010By: Christy van der Merwe5th August 2010 Power utility Eskom and other energy sector participants on Thursday expressed concern over a lack of consultation in the initial drafting of the ...

20 Jul 2010Idasa welcomes the Department of Energy and NERSA’s efforts to revisit the rules for energy efficiency and demand side management through this process. The potential for energy efficiency to greatly ...

11 Jun 20102 Assumptions Idasa's engagement on this issue builds on its ongoing work on the Electricity Governance Initiative South Africa. Its objective is to raise awareness of the issues at hand, ...

05 Aug 2009GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5 AUGUST 2009DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYNo. R. 721 5 August 2009ELECTRICITY REGULATION ACT, 2006ELECTRICITY REGULATIONS ON NEW GENERATION CAPACITY

18 Apr 2008It is a Thursday evening and the Elijah Loza Hall at Community House is full to capacity. Young and old, activists and academics, workers and students, have all come to ...

09 Feb 2007South African cities on average have the highest energy intensities in the world as they rely on cheap coal as one of the major sources of energy to drive economic ...

11 Sep 2006As part of the plan to improve electricity supply, there is an ongoing process to restructure the distribution of electricity in South Africa, and this will have a large impact ...