Background

The electricity crisis, along with rising electricity tariffs and the falling cost of solar PV generation technology has resulted in large electricity users installing their own generation, implementing efficiency measures, or procuring electricity through the grid via wheeling in an effort to bring their costs down and improve their energy security. These effects have implications for the energy infrastructure requirements that the municipalities, and the province must accommodate for. This project will gather data about the status quo in the municipalities of the larger power users, to build the foundation of a forecast model to help assist the Municipal Energy Resilience Program with understanding their needs for infrastructure requirements as well as potential new electricity supply.

Project objectives

  • Gain an overview of the electricity use of large power users in the Western Cape Province.
  • Develop future electricity demand forecasts of the Western Cape Province with a particular focus on ‘large power users’.
  • Capacitate the WCG on the use of this forecast model for future use in-house

Project outputs

  • An excel based accounting energy model of the electricity demand in the province by sub-regions.
  • A report outlining the findings and some recommendations from the modelling effort.

Project Team

Bryce McCall, Grant Smith

Partners and Funders

Sustainable Energy Africa, Western Cape Government