Financial and regulatory barriers to renewable energy

Climate change necessitates a shift from South Africa’s current fixation on coal fuelled energy to renewable energy. The private sector will play a pivotal role in making this shift. It is argued that there is a legal obligation to invest renewable energy. Such investment must take place within the existing regulatory and policy framework; however this framework is itself a barrier to private sector participation. Finance is the second barrier. An appropriate legal structure and entity must be used to raise the required funding but a variety of funding options exist. This paper examines the above barriers to private sector participation and proposes ways in which to overcome them.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Commercial Law

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Maté, Ernest Lyatitima

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gutuza, Tracy

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11661

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11661