South Africa: Renewable Energy installed capacity (MW) of REIPPPP projects and projects registered with Nersa by province and year, from 2011

CreatedMarch 7, 2025
Credit IPP database and National Energy Regulator of South Africa
CategoryEnergy
DescriptionThis dataset contains the total installed capacity per year in megawatts of the preferred bidders in South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) an the total installed capacity per year (MW) of private projects registered with the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) broken down by province. It was created to compare the total installed capacity of REIPPPP projects and Nersa projects and to show the change in location of these projects because of national electricity grid constrains. The data comes from two sources: the Independent Power Producers (IPP) database and Nersa. Note: This list contains projects that have been registered, it is important to note that not all registered projects are operational.
Data rows102
Headers
year
category
province
total_MW
Data
yearcategoryprovincetotal_MW
2018NersaNorthern Cape4.6
2019NersaNorthern Cape3.9
2020NersaNorthern Cape6.5
2021NersaNorthern Cape11.8
2022NersaNorthern Cape237.6
2023NersaNorthern Cape1548.7
2024NersaNorthern Cape154.6
2018NersaLimpopo10.35
2019NersaLimpopo3.21
2020NersaLimpopo3.25