Dirk de Vos runs a corporate finance consultancy, QED Solutions, in Cape Town and has been advising the renewable energy sector in South Africa for the last 5 years. He talks about: the advantages that renewables have over “big energy” projects; the South African renewable energy scheme; the process of awarding contracts to bidders; the social aspect of the contracts; the amount of energy South Africa will produce from renewables; and the lessons for the rest of the continent from the scheme.