Renewable Energy Auctions

Anton Eberhard is a professor at the University of Cape Town where he directs the Power Futures Lab (formerly Management Programme in Infrastructure Investment, Reform and Regulation) at the Graduate School of Business. His research and teaching focuses on governance and regulatory incentives to improve utility performance, the political-economy of power sector reform, investment challenges, and linkages to sustainable development. He has worked in the energy sector across Sub-Saharan Africa, and other developing regions, for more than 35 years and was the founding director of the Energy and Development Research Centre. In 2012, he received the SA National Energy Association's award for outstanding and sustained contributions to the enhancement of the South African energy environment.Wikus Kruger is a research lead in the Power Futures Lab, based at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on independent power producer (IPP) and emerging power investments in Africa, especially focused on renewable energy and energy access. Wikus previously worked as a research officer in the energy, poverty and development thematic group, at the Energy Research Centre, based at the University of Cape Town. Wikus holds a Master of Science in development evaluation & management, Master of Philosophy in sustainable development planning & management, Bachelor of Philosophy in sustainable development planning & management, and a Bachelor of Arts in value & policy studies.

• 1: Wikus Kruger & Anton Eberhard: Introduction 2: Maurício T. Tolmasquim, Tiago de Barros Correia, & Natália Addas Porto: Brazil - A global auctions pioneer 3: Pablo Serra: Chile - Fostering competitive renewable energy in a complex market 4: Martín A Rodríguez Pardina & Julieta Schiro,: Argentina - Auctions in a challenging investment context 5: Ignacio Rodriguez & Rogelio Avendaño: Mexico - The promise and politics of auctions and reforms 6: Vinay Rustagi & Mridul Chadha: India - The perils of massive ambition 7: Wikus Kruger, Anton Eberhard, Anna V. Filipova, & Raine Naude: South Africa - A regional trailblazer seeking transformation 8: Wikus Kruger & Anton Eberhard: Zambia - The surprising power of trust 9: Wikus Kruger & Anton Eberhard: Namibia - Bidding on the sun 10: Wikus Kruger & Anton Eberhard: Contributions from the global South and future directions

It is not often that an edited volume packed with technical detail provides an integrated, critical, and consistently helpful toolbox for progress. Editors Eberhard and Kruger and their excellent contributors have laid out a vision for energy progress (renewable and nonrenewable) through case studies of auction design and practice in eight countries on three continents across the Global South. Highly recommended.