The Act provides a framework for spatial planning and land use management monitoring, co-ordination and review, and its policies, principles, norms and standards. It aims to address past spatial and regulatory imbalances, whilst providing for inclusive developmental, equitable and efficient spatial planning. (Government of South Africa, 2013)
0.3MbDownloadThis briefing note, funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), represents an initial investigation into a potential electricity tariff structure for electric vehicles (EVs) for the City of Cape Town. It draws on international experience and local knowledge, concerns and expectations based on a review of literature and targeted interviews. This note provides recommendations for taking the discussion further but does not propose a specific tariff structure. Further development of the City’s EV strategy (in the form of the EV Framework) is needed to clarify the City’s objectives that will inform the most appropriate EV tariff.
2.58MbDownloadThis case study is a summary of a partnership between SA-LED, Polokwane municipality and local Capricorn Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College in supporting capacity of students to conduct energy audits. Polokwane municipality was able to identify potential areas for energy efficiency interventions and calculate the associated cost savings.
0.5MbDownloadThis discussion document provides context on the global megatrends affecting the electricity sector (electrification, decentralisation and digitisation) and proposed government responses through the legislative framework or through economic instruments. (SALGA, 2018)
6.6MbDownloadThis paper, using selected projects in the Cities of Johannesburg and Polokwane, examines the extent to which urban transformation has taken place, and where the challenges and opportunities lie in taking a sustainable and equitable energy transition to new levels (Reddy and Wolpe, 2018).
6.22MbDownloadCovers the case study assessments, socio-economic profiling, and financial cost-benefit analyses undertaken as part of a feasibility study regarding small-scale embedded generation rollout in mid- and low-income households in South Africa. (Urban-Econ, Sustainable Energy Africa and Sustainability Institute Innovation Lab, 2018)
0.41MbDownloadThis document provides guidance on using the municipal fleet costs and emissions calculator. (USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Programme, 2018)
0.8MbDownloadThis discussion paper tries to provide a closer look into the fundamental elements that characterize the German and South African energy markets, as well as highlight the challenges that are prevalent in the energy markets of both countries together with the opportunities that can be exploited in the current structures of these energy markets (BBH, Eclareon and SEA, 2018).
2.68mbDownloadThis study summarises the important progress South Africa has made in developing its policy and institutional architecture in response to climate change through the lens of multi-level governance and multi-stakeholder climate action (OneWorld, Sustainable Energy Africa and adelphi, 2018).
1.52mbDownloadThis Excel-based calculator allows estimation of costs, air pollutant emissions and life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with a bus fleet over a ten-year period, in order to compare impacts of using different bus types, such as diesel, biodiesel, electric, natural gas and biogas. (USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Programme, 2018)
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