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LINES AUCTIONS: The head of South Africa's Independent Power Producer Office, which oversees the public procurement of renewable energy, believes it is feasible to set up a similar agency to facilitate private investment in transmission infrastructure (see also page 14) . “It’s not going to be a cut and paste into the transmission space,” Bernard Magoro stressed at a recent conference, noting that different companies with the requisite skills would need to be encouraged to bid. Photograph: Bloomberg 