Building the enabling framework for sustainable energy in the province

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Building the enabling framework for sustainable
energy in the province

• Leila Mahomed
• Sustainable Energy Africa
• June 2005

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Outline

• Necessary Shifts
• Recommended Building Blocks
• Possible Programmes, Projects, Actions, Targets

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Shifting paradigms

• Recognising the impact of our own actions
• our 4-planet lifestyle the need to provide
  access to modern energy services to millions more
• Recognising the importance of level of energy
  service not the amount of energy to
  development
• The right kind of development not no or
  limitless development

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Shifting to a sustainable energy path- the basics
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Shifting the Provincial Energy Future
Where do we want to be by 2020?
Energy Leadership, security, delivery RE 25 by
2020

• Operational, co-ordinated, coherent energy
  programme
• Energy security enhanced measurable
  contribution to economic development job
  creation
• Clean Transport initiative operational cleaner
  fuels, increased, improved public transport,
  reduction in private car use, reduction in brown
  haze pollution
• 3-5 key DSM projects in place (solar water
  heating projects housing delivery integrated
  with energy conservation industrial energy
  efficiency programme residential conservation)
• 15-25 of energy from renewables (biomass, wind,
  solar, wave)
• IPPs at forefront of energy development
• Energy Leadership

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Building Blocks

• Organising government dealing with
  institutional barriers
• Building capacity skills and information
• Levelling the playing fields for RE EE -
  dealing with financial and regulatory barriers

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Building Blocks

• Organising government dealing with
  institutional barriers
• Ensuring an effective institutional structure for
  integrated energy management in the province,
  based on a clearly articulated allocation of
  responsibilities between and amongst national,
  provincial and local government departments
• Taking a leadership role/ Political
  responsibility
• Setting an energy vision goals targets
• Assigning energy to a department and ensuring
  energy part of job description
• Ensuring inter-ministry or inter-dept
  responsibility/
• Ensuring co-ordination co-operation
• Giving budget staff to the energy programme
• Alt Independent high level energy agency

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Projects in pipeline in need of guidance or
support and coordination
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Building Blocks

• Building capacity skills and information -
  dealing with information barriers
• Providing communication, awareness raising and
  training / skills development initiatives within
  all spheres of community (domestic, commercial
  and industrial) and government
• Improving the availability of background
  information and data for policy-makers
• RD based on local realities
• Participation of stakeholders in decision making
• Use demonstration to teach but roll out successes
  soon

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Building Blocks

• Levelling the playing fields for RE EE -
  dealing with financial and regulatory barriers
• Developing and implementing an appropriate a
  transparent regulatory and policy framework
• Accelerating the development and mkt penetration
  of sust energy tech
• Temporary financial support for sustainable
  energy tech
• Access to private capital / innovative credit and
  purchase agreements eg microfinancing or ESCOs
• Supporting ESCOs (through Red Door?)
• Developing effective partnerships with other
  public and private sector bodies
• Incorporating social environmental costs of
  energy technology
• Leading by example

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Actions/Targets organising govt

• Take a strong and well communicated policy stance
  on energy generation, for example by adopting a
  clear provincial position on such issues as
  nuclear, clean energy technologies, carbon
  mitigation, and the management of climate change
  impacts.
• Set clear, measurable targets for energy
  efficiency and greater use of renewable energy
  sources,
• 15-25 of energy from renewables (biomass, wind,
  solar, wave) by 2020.
• 3-5 key DSM projects in place (solar water
  heating projects housing delivery integrated
  with energy conservation industrial energy
  efficiency programme residential conservation)
• Ensuring effective integration of energy
  requirements within local development planning
  processes including Provincial Spatial
  Development Framework iKapa Elihlumayo,
• Develop a clear energy programme of
  implementation
• Promoting cleaner transport initiatives such as
  conversion of state vehicle fleets to cleaner
  fuels, or fast tracking the implementation of
  non-motorised transport programmes and modal
  shift from private to public transport

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Actions Organising govt

• Deal with transport sector - economically
  inefficient and environmentally unsound because
  of the predominance of private transport and the
  lack of adequate public transport facilities.
  Huge environmental, economic and welfare gains
  can be made - is requires a significant capital
  investment and planning. This is seen as the
  area with the most significant potential impact
  in terms of a move to a sustainable energy
  profile.
• Unelectrified, informal housing dependent on
  unsafe and unhealthy fuels - fires that sweep
  through informal settlements, and paraffin
  poisoning amongst children - supporting roll-out
  programmes that make immediate short-term impact.
  Related to this is the need for a more
  co-ordinated housing policy which makes provision
  for energy issues, and integrates these into the
  sustainable housing focus of the Department of
  Housing should be actively addressed in the short
  term.
• Identifying implement appropriate regulatory
  and fiscal measures in order to encourage
  investment into the province and ensure energy
  security and supply based on cleaner fuels eg
  feed-in tarriffs
• Identify and remove any existing perverse
  subsidies that may exist at the local or
  provincial level.

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Actions organising govt
Energy Steering Committee
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Actions Info Skills

• Promoting more effective dissemination and
  sharing of information between and within
  Provincial and local authorities on energy
  efficiency success stories, best-practice case
  studies and typical industry sector specific
  resource consumption baselines combined with
  training on how to emulate and even exceed
  existing project successes.
• Providing technical training to build capacity
  within local authorities on the techniques and
  practical opportunities for energy efficiency in
  the housing, property development and the
  commercial and industrial sectors.
• Establishing new, well constructed energy
  efficiency pilot programmes and extending
  existing projects to other sectors/location
  areas, with the goal that they ultimately all
  become commercially viable in the shortest
  possible time without the need for any future
  financial support from government.
• Encouraging Ministerial lead projects for
  specific energy efficiency and generation
  technologies and options aimed at highlighting
  the potential for win-win environmental, social
  and economic benefits.
• Increasing awareness amongst households, property
  developers, commercial building managers on the
  benefits and opportunities for energy efficiency,
  solar based generation, green electricity
  purchases and solar water heating, particularly
  in more affluent communities with higher energy
  consumption, building on the work that has been
  initiated by the Cities Network.
• Facilitating and supporting research and
  development into energy supply issues will be
  crucial to ensuring long term energy efficiency
  and supply security

• Place Energy Advisors in each dept

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Actions levelling the field

• Implementing measures aimed at improving lighting
  and water-heating efficiency in all domestic
  sectors
• - implementation of mandatory commercial building
  standards,
• -greater use of communication and information
  tools,
• - and the introduction of a SWH projects in a key
  towns across the Province
• Natural gas and cleaner technologies - encourage
  fuel switching (should reserves prove adequate)
• General industrial energy efficiency by
  supporting Energy Services Companies and creating
  an environment that will facilitate project
  success in key areas

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Actions

• Diversify the energy mix through innovative
  partnerships and projects with a range of players
  and diverse energy technologies.
• Building on existing cleaner production and waste
  minimisation initiatives that are being
  undertaken throughout the province to the
  establishment of waste minimisation clubs).
• Identifying and stimulating opportunities aimed
  at promoting the supply of green electricity for
  example through the implementation of voluntary
  targets for distributors to purchase green power,
  or introducing measures aimed at promoting
  increased purchase of green power by individual
  domestic and commercial consumers.
• Facilitating the adoption of voluntary
  initiatives within the private sector on energy
  efficiency, building on the current initiatives
  being undertaken by the National Business
  Initiative in consultation with various
  government departments.