Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg

Programme Overview

This five-day professional training programme delivers rigorous competencies in feed-in-tariff design and cost-of-service financial modelling for grid-connected renewable energy installations above 50kW. Participants examine the economic principles governing clean energy remuneration, focusing on resource-specific tariff setting, avoided-cost methodologies, and long-term utility financial sustainability. Hosted in Johannesburg, the course equips regulatory and utility specialists to establish transparent, predictable commercial conditions that attract private infrastructure capital while safeguarding public electricity networks and downstream consumers.

Delegates engage directly with advanced tariff structuring tools, learning to calculate levelised cost of electricity benchmarks, debt service coverage ratios, and internal rate of return thresholds for independent power producers. The curriculum addresses the operational realities of unbundled and single-buyer power markets, showing how to balance utility revenue requirements against tariff impact constraints. Analytical sessions explore risk-allocation frameworks, balancing network integration costs, indexation against inflation and foreign exchange movements, and regulatory accounting treatments suited to sovereign and regional grid architectures.

By bridging macro-fiscal policy and project-level cash flow mechanics, this programme enables institutional analysts to conduct comprehensive cost-of-service studies and formulate defensible renewable energy tariffs. Participants review international standard practices, including grid code compliance requirements and standardised power purchase provisions, ensuring clean electricity procurement aligns with national development agendas. The practical exercises empower public sector professionals to negotiate power purchase arrangements effectively, maintain off-taker creditworthiness, and establish resilient regulatory frameworks for medium and utility-scale generation assets.

Public utilities and economic regulators face mounting pressure to accelerate clean energy procurement while maintaining systemic fiscal discipline and off-taker liquidity. This programme directly addresses regulatory and economic planning requirements for initiatives such as the Preparation of a Grid Code, Feed-in-Tariffs and Model Energy Supply Purchase Agreements for Renewable Energy Systems Greater than 50kW. As small island developing states and emerging economies modernise utility frameworks, technical teams require robust, transparent cost-of-service models to evaluate independent power producer tariffs, mitigate foreign exchange exposure, and protect end-user affordability without destabilising utility balance sheets.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Johannesburg, South Africa, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Economic rationale of feed-in-tariffs versus competitive auctions for systems above 50kW
• Overview of cost-of-service regulation and utility revenue-requirement concepts
• Avoided-cost calculation methodologies: energy, capacity, and transmission cost offset
• Integrating renewable energy targets with national economic and grid stability planning
• Institutional roles of economic regulators, system operators, and generation off-takers
• Determining levelised cost of electricity for solar photovoltaic, wind, and biomass technologies
• Capital expenditure, operational expenditure, and resource capacity factor estimation
• Weighted average cost of capital estimation for utility-scale clean infrastructure
• Climate and environmental risk assessment
• Adaptation and mitigation planning
• Sector strategies for energy, water and land
• Project design for climate and environmental goals

It is designed for energy economists and utility tariff analysts from public regulatory commissions, macroeconomic regulators and fiscal analysts from ministries of energy and finance, power system planning engineers evaluating medium to large-scale renewable generation and others who want practical, current skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

The Growing Importance of Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg

Climate change, environmental pressure and resource management now shape national plans, budgets and investment decisions. Financiers increasingly expect climate and environmental considerations to be built into projects from the start.

Institutions that can plan for climate risks, manage natural resources well and prepare sound proposals are better placed to protect services and to access the funding available for this work.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets
• Design projects that meet climate and environmental goals
• Prepare proposals that financiers can approve
• Measure and report results credibly
• Work with communities and partners across sectors

Strong climate, environment and natural resources systems help organisations:

• Protect services and infrastructure from climate risks
• Access climate and environmental finance
• Meet national and international commitments
• Use natural resources sustainably

This Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Energy economists and utility tariff analysts from public regulatory commissions
• Macroeconomic regulators and fiscal analysts from ministries of energy and finance
• Power system planning engineers evaluating medium to large-scale renewable generation
• Commercial and financial managers from state-owned electricity utilities
• Legal and regulatory compliance officers handling independent power producer integration
• Project coordinators from sovereign renewable energy project implementation units
• Energy analysts working on programmes funded by the World Bank, AfDB, EU, or UN
• Investment appraisal officers assessing power purchase agreement off-take obligations
• Grid system operators managing economic dispatch and renewable connection policies
• Climate change and environment officers
• Energy, water and agriculture sector staff
• Planning and policy officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training, participants will be able to:

• Calculate levelised cost of electricity and system avoided costs for utility-scale renewable energy assets
• Formulate transparent feed-in-tariff structures using revenue-requirement and cost-of-service accounting frameworks
• Build financial models to assess independent power producer returns, debt service capacity, and utility off-taker risk
• Structure multi-currency tariff indexation mechanisms to manage inflation, foreign exchange, and interest rate volatility
• Align feed-in-tariff policies with technical grid code connection requirements for generation systems exceeding 50kW
• Evaluate the financial impacts of model energy supply and purchase agreements on utility balance sheet solvency
• Design regulatory review mechanisms and tariff degression pathways to reflect declining technology capital costs
• Explain the main climate and environmental challenges for their sector
• Assess climate and environmental risks to services and assets
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training Methodology

The programme employs applied economic modelling, institutional policy analysis, and comparative review of utility regulation practices. Delegates construct dynamic financial spreadsheets, working through real-world technical data to simulate tariff methodologies, off-taker cash flows, and indexation scenarios. Interactive lectures alternate with practical workbook clinics, where participants test the sensitivities of debt coverage, foreign exchange movements, and revenue requirements. Peer-to-peer analytical reviews enable specialists to share regional regulatory challenges, examine contract documentation, and validate model outputs against international development finance standards.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training, participants will be able to:

• Independent proficiency in constructing renewable energy cost-of-service and levelised cost financial models
• Capacity to evaluate and adjust feed-in-tariff structures to safeguard utility solvency and ratepayer affordability
• Ability to calculate system avoided costs to support regulatory filings and generation planning
• Competence in designing transparent tariff indexation formulas covering currency and inflation risk
• Skills to review and negotiate model energy supply purchase agreements for installations above 50kW
• Readiness to formulate dynamic tariff degression rules that reflect capital cost market movements
• Assess climate and environmental risks
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Climate and environmental planning
• Project design
• Access to finance
• Results measurement
• Stakeholder involvement

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk assessments
• Concept notes
• Results frameworks
• Monitoring systems
• Partnership arrangements

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply climate, environment and natural resources within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in climate, environment and natural resources increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on climate, environment and natural resources. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to climate, environment and natural resources that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Johannesburg, South Africa brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how climate, environment and natural resources is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – South Africa

Risalat Consultants International runs open-enrolment training programmes in Johannesburg, South Africa for officials, project teams and professionals from across the region. Dates, fees and what each programme covers are listed above, and any programme can also be delivered in-house for your institution.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Readiness Assessment
• Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg Training Manual
• Climate Risk Screening Checklist
• Options Appraisal Template
• Concept Note Template
• Results Measurement Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Funding Readiness Checklist
• Monitoring and Reporting Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Renewable Energy Policy, Economic Principles, and Tariff Architecture), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design projects that meet climate and environmental goals?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Cost-of-Service Modelling and Financial Evaluation Mechanics), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions prepare proposals that financiers can approve?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Feed-in-Tariff Structuring, Cost Allocation, and Utility Solvency), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions measure and report results credibly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Indexation, Macroeconomic Risks, and Commercial Agreement Structuring), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions work with communities and partners across sectors?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Day 5: Regulatory Implementation, Tariff Degression, and Policy Review), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Feed-in-Tariff Structuring and Renewable Power Cost-of-Service Modelling in Johannesburg programme take place?

It runs from 13 Sep 2027 to 17 Sep 2027, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for energy economists and utility tariff analysts from public regulatory commissions, macroeconomic regulators and fiscal analysts from ministries of energy and finance, power system planning engineers evaluating medium to large-scale renewable generation, commercial and financial managers from state-owned electricity utilities, and others who want practical skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in climate, environment and natural resources?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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