Request for Research Proposals
South Africa’s Electricity Crisis: Macroeconomic, Macro Sectoral, and Fiscal Consequences and Policy Actions Required

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), together with the National Treasury of South Africa, is requesting research proposals under the second phase of the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme. The papers generated under this Request for Research Proposals (RfRP) will be published as a part of the macro-fiscal analysis and policy modelling workstream of the programme. Submission deadline: 18 June 2023.

Background

Since 2008, South Africa has been subjected to ‘loadshedding’—a term used to describe planned power cuts intended to limit electricity demand to its constrained supply. However, as the Energy Availability Factor has fallen since 2017, days with loadshedding increased to over 200 in 2022, with loadshedding h...