Amid the technological ‘tsunami’ in renewable power technologies under way, African energy regulators need to have rules that are market friendly and that encourage competition, highlights University of the Witwatersrand Business School African Energy Leadership Centre visiting adjunct professor Dr Rod Crompton. With many African countries adding generation capacity, but struggling with weak, State-dominated power grids, Crompton says it would be helpful for professional, independent electricity regulators to determine cost-reflective tariffs for the use of electricity grids, with the ownership and operation of grids as separate, standalone entities, without any vertical integration, whether publicly or privately owned.
