Latham & Watkins LLP (JD Supra South Africa)

As sustainability has moved up the agenda across the globe, politicians, investors, corporates, and multinational funding bodies have taken note. In the public sector, governments and intergovernmental organisations have drawn out long term plans to decrease the energy sector’s carbon footprint. Similarly, financial organisations - from international commercial banks to local investors - have...

With capital costs falling and the technology ever improving, concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies present increasingly enticing investment opportunities for a number of emerging economies; not least in Sub-Saharan Africa where various nations are stepping up their renewable energy projects. Nowhere is this more evident than in South Africa, which intends to...