Department of Mineral Resources and Energy
REIPPPP
At a glance
Who qualifies
- Registered South African project company or consortium
- Project falls within the technology, size, and location parameters of the bid window
- Project meets minimum equity, debt, and B-BBEE requirements
- Complete environmental authorisation and grid connection studies
- Bid submission compliant with the Request for Proposal (RFP)
Who does not qualify
- Individuals or businesses outside the bidder / consortium structure
- Projects without environmental authorisation
- Projects that do not fit the technology or size cap in the current window
- Bidders on Treasury's restricted suppliers list
Documents you bring
- Full RFP-compliant bid document (typically hundreds of pages)
- Company registration and shareholder structure
- Environmental authorisation and heritage clearances
- Grid connection study or connection agreement
- Financial model with tariff, debt, and equity assumptions
- B-BBEE certificate and economic development commitments
- Bid deposit (R25,000 per project)
REIPPPP is a competitive procurement, bids are ranked on tariff (usually 70%) and economic development (30%). Small errors in the bid pack disqualify the bid.
How to apply
- Monitor DMRE and IPP Office for the announcement of the next bid window.
- Purchase and study the Request for Proposal (RFP) documents in detail.
- Secure your project site, environmental authorisation, and grid connection agreement.
- Build the project company, sign your consortium and equity agreements.
- Prepare and submit the RFP-compliant bid before the submission deadline.
- Bids are evaluated in phases: qualification, technical, economic development, and price.
- Preferred bidders sign PPAs with Eskom and reach commercial and financial close.
REIPPPP is not a grant programme, no free money is disbursed. The economic benefit comes from a 20-year guaranteed off-take by Eskom, secured by government.
Study prior-window disqualifications before you bid
The IPP Office publishes disqualification patterns after each window. Most disqualifications are not technical or price-based but compliance-based: unsigned appendices, wrong pagination, missing wet-ink signatures, or environmental authorisations that lapsed between application and submission. A bid manager who has read those patterns is worth more to a first-time bidder than a cheaper tariff assumption.