Saippa Information

SAIPPA was established in 2009 due to the uncertainty of perceived imminent changes in the Electricity Supply Industry. We seek to proactively engage with legislators, government officials, planners and regulators as part of our initiatives to achieve energy security in South Africa, as well as Southern Africa. Furthermore, SAIPPA is an association which was established to assist, guide and empower independent power producers to obtain access to the national power grid in order to assist South Africa with the enormous task of ensuring a continuous power supply to maintain the wheels of industry and to ensure economic wellbeing and job creation in South Africa. SAIPPA believes that any changes contemplated by Government, and other role players in the Electricity Supply Industry, must seek to achieve, inter alia, the following key objectives: • An enabling environment for IPP's to realise generation of electricity in keeping with current policy of providing 30% of national power, • The establishment of open access to the grid of IPP's, • The creation of enabling legislation and regulatory to facilitate competitive independent power generation as well as related aspects. SAIPPA is committed to playing a meaningful role in all electricity supply industry developments and has established its credibility as a constructive facilitator of independent power production with the Department of Energy, the National Electricity Regulator and with Eskom.