Stakeholder engagement software for energy, transmission and renewables

Every bid into the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) carries a scored Economic Development package alongside price. The engagement-generating obligations are local community ownership through a Local Community Trust holding a minimum shareholding for communities within a defined radius, which requires beneficiary identification, community consultation, trustee appointment and annual reporting; and Socio-Economic Development and Enterprise Development contributions expressed as a percentage of revenue and spent in the local community, which require needs assessments, community committees and impact reporting to the IPP Office. These obligations run for the life of the power purchase agreement, around 20 years.

National Treasury records that market participants flagged permitting, right of way and supply chain constraints as the risks to be mitigated in the Independent Transmission Programme. Phase 1 covers 1,164 km of 400 kV transmission lines across the Northern Cape, North West and Gauteng, and the Transmission Development Plan estimates that more than 14,000 km will be needed within the decade. Every kilometre requires servitude agreement with the landowners it crosses, and every route requires public participation under the 2014 EIA Regulations, with notice to adjacent owners and occupiers and to every organ of state with jurisdiction. Consents, not construction, are the critical path.

Section 21 of the National Nuclear Regulator Act 47 of 1999 allows any person whose health, safety or environmental interests may be affected to make representations to the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) Board, and allows the Board to arrange public hearings on those representations. Where a nuclear installation has an emergency plan, the licence holder must also establish a Public Safety Information Forum, chaired by a local resident appointed by the NNR Board, which meets in public every quarter. Site licence applications trigger public hearings of their own. Nuclear engagement is therefore continuous rather than tied to a project phase.

Yes. Licensing and rule-making by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) under the Electricity Regulation Act 4 of 2006 both run on published notices, written comment windows and public hearings. In practice that means a comment period the applicant has to track, submissions the applicant has to respond to, and a hearing record, all of which sit alongside the EIA public participation record for the same project and the same communities.

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