# Embedded Gen

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/embedded-gen/
- Published: 2021-04-27T13:24:45+02:00
- Author: dearSA

### Minister Gwede Mantashe invites public comment, input or objection to the draft amendments to the Electricity Regulation Act.

The amendments propose amendments to the **Licensing Exemption and Registration 
Notice (**embedded generation);

 * registration with the regulator is required for anything below 10MW
 * a licence is required for capacity above 10MW
 * exemption of certain requirements.

### **16179**** **participants (closed 23 May 2021)

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### SUMMARY

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe has published new embedded
generation regulations which could help businesses and private individuals reduce
their reliance on Eskom.

In the regulations, the government has proposed lifting the threshold for embedded
generation capacity from 1MW to 10MW.

Currently, the Electricity Regulation Act requires entities who want to build power
plants greater than 1MW to obtain a licence from the National Energy Regulator of
South Africa (Nersa).

The new regulations state these entities will no longer have to obtain a licence
for generation capacity up to 10MW. They will still need to register with Nersa,
but it’s not clear exactly how this process will differ from the current regime.

Professor Anton Eberhard, who directs the Power Futures Lab at UCT’s Graduate School
of Business, told Reuters the new threshold was not high enough and recommended 
that the threshold be raised to 50MW. He pointed out the new regulations did not
apply to projects aimed at adding capacity to the transmission grid.

“The minister appears to have reluctantly taken a small step forward, but failed
to recognise the profound innovations in distributed energy resources and how the
regulatory system needs to adapt,” Eberhard said.

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