http://blog.reegle.info/blog/south-africa-considers-feed-in-tariff.htm#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Weblog of reegle - Information Gateway for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.reegle.info/blog/south-africa-considers-feed-in-tariff.htm/comment-page-1#comment-809 Mohamed Cassam Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:30:28 +0000 http://blog.reegle.info/blog/peterrichards/south-africa-considers-feed-in-tariff.htm#comment-809 Private power needs the right tariffs which in turn will break Eskom whose retail traiff are too low. Which means huge subsidies from Govt regardless of whether the power comes from Eskom's own plants or buys the power from IPPs. Ergo massive drain on Governement revenues. Google the US Energy Dept website and you will find out that on average coafired power costs at least 10 US cents/kwh = R1 and renewabel energy costs more. Wind power is extremely site specific and always involves heavy investment in transmission facilities. Private power needs the right tariffs which in turn will break Eskom whose retail traiff are too low. Which means huge subsidies from Govt regardless of whether the power comes from Eskom’s own plants or buys the power from IPPs. Ergo massive drain on Governement revenues.
Google the US Energy Dept website and you will find out that on average coafired power costs at least 10 US cents/kwh = R1 and renewabel energy costs more. Wind power is extremely site specific and always involves heavy investment in transmission facilities.

]]> http://blog.reegle.info/blog/south-africa-considers-feed-in-tariff.htm/comment-page-1#comment-807 How to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy in Southern Africa | reegle Blog Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:18:56 +0000 http://blog.reegle.info/blog/peterrichards/south-africa-considers-feed-in-tariff.htm#comment-807 [...] there have been efforts to accelerate the uptake for renewable energy such as efforts to establish feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, South Africa has unfortunately made little progress in terms of achieving its 10 000 GwH of [...] [...] there have been efforts to accelerate the uptake for renewable energy such as efforts to establish feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, South Africa has unfortunately made little progress in terms of achieving its 10 000 GwH of [...]

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