While electricity generation capacity in South Africa is increasingly being privatised and decentralised, the government has stated that transmission infrastructure must remain in the hands of the public sector to ensure equal access. However, uncertainty remains regarding whether the government will be able to expand the transmission grid sufficiently and quickly enough to accommodate the plethora of renewable electricity generation projects that are being held up by transmission bottlenecks, particularly in the Northern Cape, where the most opportunities for renewable energy generation capacity lie.
