The Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA) is a formal association of independent electricity regulators whose establishment was approved by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ministers responsible for Energy in Maseru, Lesotho on 12 July 2002. The Association was officially launched in Windhoek, Namibia on 26 September 2002 and it provides a platform for effective co-operation between independent electricity regulators within the SADC region.

LEA was officially admitted as a member of RERA by the Executive Committee on 18 March 2005. The membership to RERA is open to electricity supply industry (ESI) regulators in each country within SADC. Each country is limited to a single membership. The founding members of RERA are teh Electricity Control Board of Namibia (ECB), the National Electricity Regulator of South Africa (NER), the National Electricity Council of Malawi (NECO) and the Energy Regulation Board of Zambia (ERB).

RERA has the ollowing three(4) strategic objectives:

Capacity Building & Information Sharing - Facilitate electricity regulatory capaciy building among members at both a national and regional level through information sharing and skills training.

Facilitation of Eletricity Supply industry (ESI) Policy, Legislation and Regulation - Facilitate harmonized ESI policy, lagislation and regulations for cross-border trading, focusing on issues concerning access to transmission capacity and cross-border tariffs

Regional Regulatory Cooperation - Deliberate and make recommendations on issues that affect the economic efficiency of electricity interconnections and electricity trade among members that fall outside national jurisdiction, and to execise such powers as may be conferred on RERA through the SADC Energy Protocol.

As mentioned previously, the third RERA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Conference was held in Maseru from November 19-22 2006 and the host organisation was the LEA. In 2007 the newest Member of RERA, the Zimbabwe Electricity Regulatory Commission (ZERC) hosted the 4th AGM and Conference. Here are some of the presentations made during the event held at Victoria Falls on the border with Zambia.