Bruno Merven
Bruno has been working in the field of energy systems modelling and planning since 2005. He has worked on and has been involved in the development of several energy systems models of South Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa, West Africa, North Africa, South-East Europe, and in the Middle East, on various modelling platforms. In recent years, he’s been centrally involved in the linking of the South African TIMES model (SATIM), developed at the ERC and eSAGE, a CGE model based on the standard IFPRI CGE model with some detail added in the energy sector. The linked modelling framework, SATIMGE, has been used for several projects done by the Energy Systems Research Group, which was used to update South Africa’s NDC for DFFE. Bruno also lectures/supervises MSc students on the Energy Systems Analysis Course at UCT and has been involved in several capacity building projects across Southern and Western Africa for the IAEA and IRENA.
Qualifications:
BSc (Eng) Mechatronics, UCT (1999)
MSc (Eng) Electrical Engineering, UCT (2004)
MSc Financial Mathematics, UCT (2008)
PhD (in progress)
Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iPVqkhUAAAAJ&hl=en
Selected Publications
Hartley, F., Merven, B., Hughes, A., Marquard, A. and Ranchhod, V., 2025. Estimating the economy-wide and redistributive impacts of mitigation in South Africa. Climate and Development, pp.1-12.
Hughes, A., Caetano, T., Cunliffe, G., Hartley, F., Marquard, A., Mccall, B. and Merven, B., 2024. Developing and maintaining a policy-focussed, comprehensive, energy systems model in a developing country context: The case of SATIM in South Africa. Energy Strategy Reviews, 56, p.101594.
Sterl, S., Hussain, B., Miketa, A., Li, Y., Merven, B., Ben Ticha, M.B., Elabbas, M.A.E., Thiery, W. and Russo, D., 2022. An all-Africa dataset of energy model. Scientific Data, 9(1).
R. Mehta, D. Oyedokun, B. Merven and R. Larmour, "Multi-Nodal Energy Systems Modelling Scenarios of South Africa's Power Sector," 2023 31st Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference (SAUPEC), Johannesburg, South Africa, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SAUPEC57889.2023.10057721.
Technical Analysis to support the update of South Africa’s First NDC’s mitigation target ranges (UCT 2021) Andrew Marquard, Faaiqa Hartley, Bruno Merven, Jesse Burton, Alison Hughes, Gregory Ireland, Anthony Dane, Brett Cohen, Harald Winkler, Julia McGregor, Luanne Stevens, Joseph Masenda, Deepti Charitar, Bryce Mc Call, Harro Von Blottnitz, Fadiel Ahjum
Arndt, C., Arent, D., Hartley, F., Merven, B. and Mondal, A.H., 2019. Faster than you think: Renewable energy and developing countries. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 11, pp.149-168.
Anvari, V., Arndt, C., Hartley, F., Makrelov, K., Strezepek, K., Thomas, T., Gabriel, S. and Merven, B., 2022. A climate change modelling framework for financial stress testing in Southern Africa. Economic Research and Statistics Department, South African Reserve Bank.
McCall, B., Burton, J., Marquard, A., Hartley, F., Ahjum, F., Ireland, G. and Merven, B. 2019. Least cost integrated resource planning and cost-optimal climate change mitigation policy — Alternatives for the South African electricity system. SA-TIED working paper 29. · Merven, B., Hartley, F. and Ahjum, F. 2019. Road freight and energy in South Africa. SA-TIED working paper 60.
Merven, B., Hartley, F., Mccall, B., Burton,B., and Schers, J. 2019. Improved representation of coal supply for the power sector for South Africa. SA-TIED working paper 84. · Merven, B., Hartley, F. and Schers, J. 2020. Long term modelling of household demand and its implications for energy planning. SA-TIED working paper 99.
McCall, B., Burton, J., Marquard, A., Hartley, F., Ahjum, F., Ireland, G. and Merven, B., 2019. Least-cost integrated resource planning and cost-optimal climate change mitigation policy: Alternatives for the South African electricity system. Energy Research.