The governing documents that address the Southern African Power Pool’s (SAPP) role in cross-border transactions provide a framework that bidders, under the coal baseload independent power producer procurement programme (CBIPPP), that addresses some of the Department of Energy’s (DoE) requirements for cross-border projects in Southern Africa under the CBIPPP. There are two key requirements that bidders of cross-border projects under the CBIPPP will need to satisfy, before the signing of the implementation agreement. These are…