Cape Town is seeking to secure more than 450 megawatts of power from renewable sources to cut reliance on state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. and
READ MOREThe mayoral committee recently authorised third parties to enter the electricity market and use Cape Town''s robust grid infrastructure. The City is currently piloting wheeling, with plans to fully
READ MORECape Town is to source electricity from independent producers, the first South African city to do so and a sign of increased frustration with the government''s
READ MOREThe long-term strategy is tied into infrastructure planning that will drive jobs and take people out of poverty. Stats SA''s Quarterly Labour Force Survey showed that Cape Town''s unemployment is 21% – the lowest in South Africa. 43,000 new jobs were created in Q4 last year, and in the past two years, 363,000 new jobs were created.
READ MOREYou can apply for an prepaid electricity meter from the City of Cape Town. If you would like to run a standby generator from the City''s electricity network, you must submit an application. You can apply for an electricity service connection from the City of Cape Town. Businesses can sell surplus Small-scale Embedded Generation energy to us.
READ MORECity of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said that electricity tariffs for ratepayers would increase by 17.6%. A slightly more contained figure than that of Eskom''s. This comes after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) approved Eskom''s 18.65% electricity tariff hike.
READ MOREThe University of Cape Town, South Africa and the University of Oslo, Norway, are pleased to present a two-day training course. ABOUT THE COURSE Electricity market design underpins the functioning of power systems. With changing generation and consumption patterns, there is an urgent need to
READ MORECape Town is spearheading efforts to combat the nation''s energy shortages through electricity wheeling, with Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announcing that 15 commercial electricity suppliers will soon
READ MOREKadri Nassiep is Executive Director for Energy at City of Cape Town. We explore the City''s energy and sustainability strategy for growth and recovery, major challenges, energy independence, success stories, future technologies, opportunities for collaboration with private sector, and what the future can look like. Discussion highlights.
READ MOREPublished Apr 4, 2022. | Published Apr 4, 2022. Cape Town - Economists and energy experts have weighed-in on a City draft energy budget of R16.4 billion that aims to achieve greater energy
READ MOREThe plan proposes a future-fit municipal electricity service, infrastructure upgrades, and initiatives to help residents benefit from the evolving energy market. Adding 650MW of Power. Cape Town plans to add approximately 650MW of power within the next five years and establish 1GW of independent power in the long term.
READ MOREThe Cape Town State of Energy and Carbon 2021 report is a collaborative product of the City of Cape Town''s Sustainable Energy Markets Department in the Energy and Climate Change Directorate, other City departments, and Sustainable Energy Africa.
READ MOREelectricity supplier) for the Cape Town Supply Area. The by-law allows for the retail wheeling of electricity through the City''s network by a third party licensed electricity supplier to customers within the City Supply Area. It is envisioned that a future third party licensed electricity supplier would be an electricity retail market which
READ MOREOne of the City of Cape Town''s Infrastructure Report highlights is adding 650MW in independent power to the Cape Town grid by 2026/2027 to "protect against
READ MORECity of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said that electricity tariffs for ratepayers would increase by 17.6%. A slightly more contained figure than that of
READ MORECape Town''s electricity landscape is rapidly liberalising off the back of our ''end loadshedding plans'', with 700MW of independent power under procurement, Energy wheeling will change Cape Town C&I market. Councillor Beverley van Reenen, Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, explained that the City is getting to grips with the
READ MOREIn 2021, with support from the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and the S&P Global Foundation, the Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) launched its Urban Power
READ MORE2nd floor, North Wharf, 42 Hans Strijdom Avenue, Foreshore, Cape Town, 8001 Authors:Argon Poorun and Jack Radmore Editorial and review: Cilnette Pienaar ESCos market for energy efficiency in South Africa 41 Figure 14: Energy consumption in UPS Uninterruptible power supply WC Western Cape Exchange rates used: 1 US Dollar =
READ MOREThe Cape Town State of Energy and Carbon 2021 report is a collaborative product of the City of Cape Town''s Sustainable Energy Markets Department in the Energy and Climate Change Directorate, other City departments, and Sustainable Energy Africa. The City of Cape Town thanks the following stakeholders for their respective contributions:
READ MOREThe City of Cape Town''s Water and Sanitation Directorate is making significant progress with South Africa''s largest sewer upgrade of its kind, rehabilitating 28km of bulk sewer pipelines. <p> To date, 25% (7kms) of this extensive, multi-phase sewer rehabilitation has been successfully completed.
READ MOREWheeling will take place on 11kV and higher lines only.<br></p> <p>We envision that a future licensed third party electricity supplier would be part of an electricity retail market, which would allow trading of electricity at prices set by either a competitive bidding process or by means of bilateral power purchase agreements (PPAs).
READ MORECape Town''s energy demand is met by a reliable and cost-effective supply of increasingly carbon neutral energy from multiple energy suppliers, with new energy sources
READ MOREThe Energy Directorate in the City of Cape Town has two departments: Sustainable Energy Markets and Electricity Generation and Distribution. Municipal land ownership (over 1 ha): Site-specific requests for land ownership data can be
READ MOREThe City announced its R16.4 billion draft energy budget which it hopes to use towards building energy resilience in Cape Town. Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency (ANA)
READ MOREThe City of Cape Town says that customers are seeing the impact of the massive Eskom-driven electricity increases. It now costs municipalities 17.8% more to
READ MOREAfter years of energy shortages, the City of Cape Town is moving ahead with the procurement of up to 700 megawatts of new generation capacity from independent power producers; and from 2023, Cape Town will start procuring utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) too.
READ MOREThis Energy Strategy sets out the City of Cape Town''s vision and a programme of action to address the current energy supply crisis while navigating the energy
READ MOREForeign direct investment in the renewable energy sector here amounted to ±R7.4 billion between 2008 and 2018. This investment came predominantly through the electricity (42.2%) and sales, marketing and support (40.1%) sub-sectors. The manufacturing sub-sector also observed an FDI inflow of 14.7% of all FDI inflows into the Renewable Energy
READ MORESustainable Energy Markets Presentation to Sub Councils 16. 60 buildings retrofitted Energy Efficiency in Municipal Operations • The City consumes 4% of all electricity used in Cape Town. As such, it is committed to improving the management of energy use in all its municipal operations with the aim of improving resource efficiency, reducing
READ MORECape Town State of Energy and Carbon 2021. April 2022. Climate Action Planning. The City of Cape Towns State of Energy and Carbon 2021 report. The report outlines key energy and carbon trends and how the City is responding to impossible-seeming trade-offs. Type: Data. Size: 8 MB. Download.
READ MOREcapetown.gov . YouthStartCT Entrepreneurial Challenge : Comment on the proposed lease of various City-owned properties for telecommunication infrastructure purposes
READ MORE