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The Energy Research Centre (ERC) is a multi-disciplinary energy research centre,
housed in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town.

The Centre conducts high quality, targeted and relevant research as well as offering
postgraduate opportunities at the Masters and PhD levels.

 

Invitation to a conference to be held in Cape Town in March 2010
PUTTING A PRICE ON CARBON
Economic instruments to mitigate climate change
in South Africa and other developing countries
click here for more details

 

 

Concentrating solar power

In May 2009 ERC held a one-day workshop to discuss:
What are the technical, industrial and infrastructure requirements for the large-scale rollout of CSPgeneration in South Africa?

Click here to access downloadable presentations and the final workshop report

 

THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

ERC in collaboration with Genesis Analytics and the Environmental Policy Research Unit (also at UCT) in February 2009 published a series of five reports on the economics of climate change mitigation. All are now available on the website here.

Now also available: Powerpoint presentations from two events organised at the 2009 Climate Change Summit.

Long-term mitigation scenarios

Downloadable: Several documents from the major project which provided government with the basis for a broadly supported, robust climate policy
Go to the LTMS page

 

 

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