Governance, scale, scope: A review of six South African electricity generation infrastructure megaprojects

Julian Gregory

Utilities Policy, 2020, vol. 66, issue C

Abstract: This empirical study analyses and evaluates six electricity generation megaprojects in South Africa, undertaken to facilitate an understanding of how project governance, scale and scope, influence the development performance of such types of projects in a sub-Saharan context (recognising the inference limitations). Three case-studies, Medupi, Kusile and Ingula, are significantly larger and have been problematical to build for the country's national electricity utility, Eskom. The three smaller case-studies, Avon, Dedisa and Sere, were all successfully commissioned and serve as a counterfactual for this analysis. The fieldwork involved 32 interviews with knowledgeable experts from at least one project.

Keywords: Medupi; Kusile & Ingula; Electricity infrastructure development in Africa; Governance of megaproject development in Africa; Electricity generation megaprojects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2020.101103

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