# South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme, which was once a global model of success, is now faltering. This is according to the University of Cape Town’s doctor Wikus Kruger, who says grid constraints, slow procurement cycles, and institutional challenges are stalling progress. He says Bid Window 6 collapsed due to grid constraints, while Bid Window 7 secured one-thousand-760-megawatts of solar photovoltaic, but bottlenecks prevented wind projects from being awarded. Kruger says urgent reforms are needed to fix the country’s renewables procurement.
Reforms needed to fix SA’s renewable energy power producer procurement programme