Category Archives: Legal Framework

The status of Embedded Generation (EG) in South African Municipalities is covered, with data per province and municipality where available. Total registered EG MW are also compared with other studies by Eskom and SAPVIA. (SALGA 2023)

Specifies embedded generator sizes that are exempt from NERSA licensing requirements, and which are exempt but still need to register with NERSA (Note that this document is very similar to the 15 Dec 2022 Schedule 2, with one wording correction which does not affect embedded generator registration or licensing requirements).

This report highlights and clarifies the various legal and regulatory issues pertaining to the municipal legal framework applicable to embedded generation (Pinsent Masons, 2022).

A guide to the connection of embedded generation to a municipal distribution system: electricity supply by-law and policy requirements (Cliffe Decker Hofmeyr, 2019).

Where SSEG needs to be registered with NERSA  in terms of the ERA Schedule 2 (Licensing Exemption), this for is to be filled in and submitted to them. (NERSA 2019)

This industry brief by GreenCape clarifies the NERSA registration and licensing requirements for SSEG as of March 2020 (when the latest Schedule 2 – license exemption – of the ERA was gazetted). GreenCape 2021

Guides the amendment of a municipal electricity supply by-law to cover SSEG. Provides recommended text to use in the by-law. Also outlines the roles of both by-laws and policies, and the differences between them (Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, 2019).

An amendment to the Electricity Regulation Act, 2006 concerning the Minister’s powers around granting generation license exemption, and NERSA’s procedures for registering generators, amongst other areas.

The Electricity Regulation Act (ERA) provides the national regulatory framework for the electricity supply industry.