Director in the Projects, Energy & Restructuring Practice
DLA Piper Africa
A prosumer is a mixture of a producer and a consumer. The Energy Act 2019 provides for small producers of renewable energy for their own use to sell their surplus to the national grid, which makes them prosumers.
They only pay for the ‘net’ electricity they use from the grid through a mechanism known as Net Metering. Draft regulations for Net Metering were released for public comment by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) in June 2022.
