UEMP SWH Actions

Research/Actions

Who

Timeframe

Establish Prepayment/repayment collection system through City/Eskom

SEA to coordinate

Eskom

Cities

Information and support to engage with programmatic CDM

Carl Wesselink

Sustainable Housing Facility (SHF)

6 monthly meeting of all players to share and learn experiences, additional issues
 

SEA to coordinate

Eskom

Generate resource point for providing case studies, CDM information, Terms of references, lessons learnt, technical info

Establishing financing mechanisms (funding/loans) at national level.
Recommendation: 1)  to keep as part of energy infrastructure investment and the Regulator role to ringfence the amount of funds required, 2)  When developing mechanism consider using elements of the current off-grid electrification concession model w.r.t. PPP’s and regulating ESCO service level agreement  to include performance of maintenance of SWHs.

SEA to coordinate

Yaw (DBSA)

Cedric (Eskom)

SHF

REEEP

Engage with national government for leadership around SWHs

Eskom SWH Secretariate

REEEP

Health impact – polycarbonate/ fibreglass/ stainless steel quality and potability

SEA

Carl Wesselink

Is water heating an energy use priority linked to FBE collection mechanism?

Establish how the Eskom subsidy will be administered for low-income housing

Establish Eskom guarantee period

Rebound effect

ERC/UCT

SEA

Do people need hot water? What quantity etc… (recommendation to keep as part of energy infrastructure investment )

Investigate the amount of low-income households to be potentially targeted
Identify what services are actually required by households
Explore service provision and linkages with the IDP with a view to hot water provision

Explore the appropriateness of hot water provision for communal bathing facilities versus individual households.

Develop scenarios – a 20 year plan for hot water delivery nationally and the impact thereof on electricity planning as a means to acquire national buy-in to this process.

SEA

REEEP

Determine the amount of increased water use from SWHs & impact on national water shortages and planning (when carrying out this synthesis deduct water use from electricity generation)

SEA

REEEP