• Uganda: Captive Power

    Model Business Case: Solar Photovoltaic (PV) for Commercial and Industrial Facilities
    Authour: GET.invest

  • Namibian Embedded Generation Standard (EGS) – Final Draft

    A set of standards that ensure safe electrical installation work relating to embedded generation activities. The standards are legally enforcable and ensure uniformity by stakeholders within the Namibian ESI.
    Author: Shootecc Engineering CC

  • Swaziland (Eswatini) Independant Power Producer Policy

    Seeks to address barriers to energy generation development and IPP growth to enable a successful transition of Eswatini’s energy matrix towards sustainable energy sources and to open the market to the private sector in a controlled way via IPPs.
    Authour: USAID Southern Africa

  • The Eswatini Grid Code

    This document legally establishes technical and other requirements for the connection to and use of an electrical utility in a manner that will ensure reliable, efficient, and safe operation.

  • Namibia Renewable Energy Grid Code: Final

    These are the set of rules which define conditions for accessing the electricity grid.

  • Scaling Up Variable Renewable Energy: The Role of Grid Codes

    Grid codes provide the rules for the power system and energy market operation, ensuring operational stability, security of supply and well-functioning wholesale markets. A set of grid codes can include, for instance, connection codes, operating codes, planning codes, market codes. This report provides guidance to regulators, policy makers, system operators and other stakeholders on how grid connection codes should be developed and implemented. It considers the country context with a view to enabling a higher share of VRE in the power system (IRENA).

  • Ugandan Electricity Amendment Act, 2022

    The objects and principles of this act are to amend the Electricity Act, Cap. 145. The proposal to amend the Electricity Act, Cap. 145 was intended to remove inconsistencies in the law introduce flexibility in its implementation and to streamline operations of the electricity sector.

  • Supporting the Development of Distributed Energy in Africa

    This Regulatory Guidebook offers practical guidance to adapt regulatory frameworks so that they maximize the benefits to society of growing use of distributed energy (DE), and to allow regulatory reforms to be realistically implemented in Africa.

  • Analysis of Indian Electricity Distribution Systems for the Integration of High Shares of Rooftop PV

    The report is a summarised version of a study which provides an overview of the characteristics of the Indian power system and its problems with regard to a large-scale rooftop PV rollout, as well as a template for distribution companies on how to deal with rising PV shares, which studies to conduct and which technology options to select.
    Authour:Thomas Ackermann, Eckehard Tröster, Peter-Philipp Schierhorn, Bharadwaj Narasimhan, Jan-David Schmidt and Dwipen Boruah

  • Distributed Generation for Self-Consumption: Key Aspects and Recommendations of Good Practice

    This paper addresses the need to define all important aspects of self-consumption with the focus on commercial issues and avoidance of cross-subsidization among consumer’s groups.  A primary goal of this paper is to recognize all important aspects that need to be regulated to make prosumers concept fully effective in practice. Where possible it provides recommendations that can be used as a good practice for policy makers in the European Union Energy Community countries (ECDSO-E Working Group, EU).