Renewable energy in South Africa: Potentials, barriers and options for support

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Promoting renewable electricity generation in emerging economies (2013, background): “This reliance on domestic coal reserves has allowed for the low electricity prices commonly identified as a major driver of the country’s rapid economic development (IEA 2011, 439; Pegels 2010, 4947–4949).”
Current status and future prospects of renewable energy in Nigeria (2015, background): “[110] has shown that as in 2008, coal contributed 86%, nuclear contributed 5% of the country's energy mix.”
Review of barriers to the dissemination of decentralized renewable energy systems (2016, background): “…various studies (Jagadeesh, 2000; Painuly, 2001; Reddy and Painuly, 2004; Owen, 2006; Stangeland, 2007; Mirza et al., 2009; Oikonomou et al., 2009; Pegels, 2010; Ahlborg and Hammar, 2011; Adams et al., 2011; Junfeng et al., 2002; Zyadin et al., 2014; Mezher et al., 2012; Negro et al., 2012;…”
National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions (2014, background): “(Pegels, 2010) describes the 10 introduction of a renewable FIT guaranteed for 20 years in South Africa, but notes that it is unclear 11 what effect this will have on the investment decisions of the monopolist electricity supplier.”