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20 June 2013
                       
 
 
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11 Mar 2013
 
 
NERSA makes unaffordable tariff charges more palatable
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
On 28 February 2013 the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) approved an 8% average increase per annum for the period from 1 April 2013 to 1 April 2014. During the period from 15 to 31...
 
 
12 Dec 2012
 
Perennial protests, industrial action and the risks to the security of energy supply
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
As the country continues to count the costs of widespread industrial action including the loss of lives of mine workers and members of the security police, the long term socio-economic effects are...
 
 
26 Apr 2012
 
Nuclear Energy: The light and dark sides
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
In South Africa, “the wisdom of including nuclear generation in a future build programme is being questioned.” The DOE, Necsa and other energy stakeholders in South Africa will have to focus...
 
 
02 Apr 2012
 
 
 
What is contained in local content under the Renewable Energy Procurement Programme?
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Werksmans Attorneys director Happy Masondo discusses the local content requirements in the Department of Energy's RFPs.
 
 
01 Mar 2012
 
 
 
Renewable Energy Project Developers and their Legal Personality Change in Control: What does it all mean?
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Werksmans Attorneys director Happy Masondo discusses the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Programme and some of the requirements for preferred bidders.
 
 
09 Dec 2011
 
 
 
The benefits of private power
WERKSMANS
Despite criticism from some quarters, Werksmans director Happy Masondo says SA is demonstrating commitment to producing electricity from renewable sources in an environmentally and socially...
 
 
01 Nov 2011
 
 
 
The bid for private power: an overview of SA’s renewable energy bid process
WERKSMANS
According to Werksmans directors Greg Nott and Happy Masondo independent power producers are interested in complying with the stringent requirements in the Department of Energy’s renewable energy...
 
 
05 Oct 2011
 
 
 
The genesis of the renewable energy procurement programme
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
According to Werksmans director Happy Masondo, Independent Power Producers are celebrating the threefold increase in capacity open for bidding in the competitive process that has replaced the...
 
 
06 Sep 2011
 
 
 
Regulatory platitudes and international agreements
WERKSMANS
Werksmans director Happy Masondo says that the introduction of a competitive pricing model may cause independent producers of renewable energy to lose interest in the sector.
 
 
06 Jul 2011
 
 
 
What light is at the end of the renewable energy tunnel?
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
Recently promulgated regulations indicate a move by authorities to reduce reliance on coal in favour of renewable energy. However, Werksmans Attorneys director Happy Masondo argues that other...
 
 
10 Dec 2010
 
 
 
Renewable energy technology lags supercritical technology, but Eskom has to keep the lights on
WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa ("the NERSA") is a statutory entity established in terms of Section 3 of the National Energy Regulator Act 40 of 2004 whose functions include, but are...
 
 
23 Nov 2010
 
 
 
Daily podcast - November 23, 2010
PODCAST
In today's podcast, a legal expert says that Eskom wants monopoly at expense of consumers; the UN says that climate change combatting costs are set to rise, but technology can help; and, ANC...
 
 
22 Nov 2010
 
Eskom wants monopoly at expense of consumers — lawyer
ELECTRICITY
Extraordinary measures are needed to prevent power failures but Eskom will not enable this by letting go of its monopoly over power generation, a legal expert said on Monday.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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