South Africa's rapid electrification programme: Policy, institutional, planning, financing and technical innovations

By B. Bekker, A. Eberhard, T. Gaunt, A. Marquard. 2008

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The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption and Trade: Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa Countries (2015, background): “Mauritius, South Africa and Ghana are cited among Sub-Saharan countries to make-up a significant steps in increasing their potential in the consumption of renewable energy (Bekker et al. 2008). Let notice that there are areas in Africa where solar energy potential can be considered very interesting.”
Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa (2018, background): “In addition to the signiﬁcant literature on national level dynamics and policy making in South Africa’s electricity sector (e.g. Baker et al., 2015; Bekker et al., 2008; Eberhard et al., 2014), this paper contributes to the more recent academic studies on the country’s distribution system.”
Energy access programmes and sustainable development: A critical review and analysis (2012, background): “Escom, the state electricity company, initially thought the electrification programme could be self-financing but by late 1990s, it became apparent that this is unlikely and the state took the responsibility for funding the infrastructure development and subsidising supply (Bekker et al (2008)).”
The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers (2016, background): “Though the country’s unprecedented post-apartheid expansion programme between 1994 and 2000 saw domestic connection rates rise from approximately 30 to 70 percent of the population (Bekker et al 2008), one third of the population still lack access to electricity, particularly in rural areas.”
The value of cooperatives in rural electrification (2010, background): “Prepayment technologies (such as those used in South Africa) can also be used to limit demand and help ‘customers not to incur unaffordable consumption costs’ (Bekker et al., 2008, p. 3133–4).”