A legal dispute now before the courts has drawn attention to a growing challenge in South Africas energy transition: increasing competition among renewable energy developers for limited grid connection capacity, says Chris Yelland , MD of EE Business Intelligence.
The case, Mulilo Renewable Energy v Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd and Others , is being heard in the High Court, Gauteng Division, Johannesburg.
At issue is the decision by Eskom and the National Transmission Company South Africa NTCSA to cancel previously allocated grid access for a 240 MW privately procured solar photovoltaic PV project and reallocate that capacity to publicly procured Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme Bid Window 7 projects associated with Norwegian developer Scatec.
