South Africa Project Map
Get a complete picture of wind energy in South Africa
With over 40 utility-scale wind projects now announced in South Africa, and big wins expected in the upcoming Round 5, the wind landscape in South Africa is continuing to expand.
Amy Allebone-Salt, project director, New Energy Update, FCBI Energy
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Energy Futures Dialogue
You are cordially invited to participate and attend the first
Energy Futures Dialogue
hosted by University of Johannesburg, WWF SA and EE Publishers
DATE: Wednesday 12 October 2016
TIME: 08h30 to 18h00, with networking cocktail party from 18h00 to 20h00
VENUE: UJ Bunting Road Campus, School of Tourism and Hospitality
COST: R800 + VAT per person; Students: R400 + VAT
Click here to register to attend online now
Click here to download a quotation and manual registration form
South Africa is at the crossroads of its energy future, with government implementing or intending to implement major structural changes and infrastructure to manage risks, maximise economic growth potential for the country, and ensure sustainable environmental impact.
The changes envisaged are not only in the primary energy and technology mix of the country (coal, oil, petroleum, diesel, nuclear, hydro, gas, wind, solar, biomass, biofuels, etc.), but also in the mix of ownership between state-owned enterprises, public companies and independent private enterprise. The difficulties of long-term energy planning in an uncertain and changing world are a reality that have to be carefully managed.
There are deep public and industry concerns regarding the policy direction, planning and procurement processes, with the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP), the update to the Integrated Resource Plan for electricity IRP2010-2030, the Gas Utilisation Master Plan (GUMP), and the nuclear new-build procurement process delayed for several years.
To ensure management accountability and to minimise cost and risk to the economy and customers, the question of ownership, funding, affordability, procurement, effective on-time and on-budget execution, and ongoing delivery within appropriate business structures, needs to be carefully re-examined.
With the "utility death spiral" becoming a reality in many countries, the traditional, vertically integrated national utility and municipal model of electricity supply in South Africa is increasingly being questioned. Rapidly rising electricity prices and the entry of independent power producers, smart grids, distributed generation and new business models are making grid supplementation and/or grid defection increasingly viable.
The Energy Futures Dialogue explores the above in four main focus sessions namely:
- Energy planning in an uncertain world
- Generation costs, financing and affordability
- The optimum generation mix for economic growth
- Energy politics: Appropriate business models, utilities and grids
Thereafter there will be an open debate and discussion, chaired by an eminent energy expert, followed by a networking cocktail party... (more)
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