Nersa-registered private electricity generation projects, MW cumulative annual capacity by province
Cumulative capacity in MW of private electricity generation projects registered with the National Energy Regulator of South Africa per province, per year. Private energy projects with a capacity of more than 100MW have to register with Nersa for a generation licence. Smaller projects between 100kW and 100MW must register if they intend to be connected to the electricity grid. Projects include renewable and non-renewable as well as battery storage. The data starts from February 2018. It is updated monthly.
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The data
9 rows, 11 columns.
- year Year
- Calendar year. Data starts February 2018 to last update (??) 2018 – 2026
- northern_cape Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 5 – 3557
- limpopo Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 10 – 3153
- free_state Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 1 – 3600
- western_cape Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 2 – 3435
- north_west Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 1 – 1930
- mpumalanga Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 3 – 1471
- gauteng Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 2 – 2593
- eastern_cape Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 0 – 791
- kwazulu_natal Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in this province 2 – 576
- zar Number
- MW of cumulative capacity of private electricity projects registered in South Africa 25 – 21105
Latest rows
| year | northern_cape | limpopo | free_state | western_cape | north_west | mpumalanga | gauteng | eastern_cape | kwazulu_natal | zar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3557 | 3153 | 3600 | 3435 | 1930 | 1471 | 2593 | 791 | 576 | 21105 |
| 2025 | 2627 | 3104 | 2718 | 2983 | 1807 | 1288 | 2444 | 775 | 565 | 18312 |
| 2024 | 1968 | 1407 | 1631 | 1324 | 1279 | 1128 | 944 | 617 | 533 | 10831 |
| 2023 | 1813 | 664 | 858 | 464 | 1077 | 376 | 365 | 609 | 165 | 6390 |
| 2022 | 264 | 130 | 411 | 175 | 505 | 35 | 181 | 102 | 97 | 1900 |
| 2021 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 12 | 15 | 57 | 13 | 21 | 236 |
| 2020 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 5 | 10 | 102 |
| 2019 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 49 |
| 2018 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25 |
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