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Open
energy database
The aim of this
project is to provide a more current, consistent and comprehensive data
set for more direct input into commonly-used energy system analysis
tools.
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The
transport sector demand for liquid fuels
This project aims to
disaggregate the demand for transport based liquid fuels in South
Africa.
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Awareness and
behavioural energy tools
This project will
develop tools to enhance understanding of energy-use behaviour and to
build awareness
of energy and energy efficiency in the residential sector.
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Mitigation action
plans and scenarios
This is a
collaborative project aimed at assisting selected Latin american
countries develop mitigation action plans and scenarios.
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Long-term mitigation
scenarios update
This project aims at
improving and updating the SA government supported Long Term Mitigation
Scenarios Project.
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Techno-economic
analysis of carbon capture and storage in Southern Africa
The project aims to
assess the costs of various opportunities for carbon capture and storage
(for emissions from electricity generation) in South Africa, Botswana,
Namibia and Mozambique.
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• Monitoring of
SouthSouthNorth CDM projects in South Africa
Evaluating whether the
project design process as laid out in the SSN Project Proposal has been
duly implemented
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Quantifying
sustainable development policies and measures (SD-PAMs)
in national and international models
This
projects aims to link national energy models with international
models
considering the allocation of emissions allowances. We propose to
develop a methodology to create such a linkage using South Africa as a
test case to link a bottom up SD-PAMs analysis for South Africa with the
MNP/FAIR and Ecofys/ EVOC models. This methodology is to be developed
through a collaborative process between analysts from ERC, MNP and
Ecofys.
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Long term mitigation scenario planning
South
Africa has the opportunity to proactively define approaches and
development paths that we – as a society – consider desirable. At the
same time, there is a huge opportunity for international investment in
climate-friendly technology. In other words, we need to work out a
range of paths which work for the country.
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• Low carbon society:
Global warming statistics for South Africa
This project provides a
South African input to the Japan-UK initiative in developing visions for
a low-carbon society through sustainable development.
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Greenhouse
gas information management project
The project's two main areas of work are
preparing the South African national GHG inventory as an input to the
second national Communication to the UNFCCC, and
establishing a
database and institutionalising a system for data collection on an
ongoing basis.
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C3D
– Strengthening human and institutional capacity in developing countries
for policy analysis and effective negotiation on climate change
This project, conducted together with partner organisations in Senegal
and Sri Lanka, aims to support the building-up of capacities in
developing countries, not only to better integrate into the
international process, including the forthcoming negotiations, but also
to train relevant negotiators and decision makers.
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• Energy security and energy efficiency
Study will
focus on the impact of especially energy insecurity on the household
sector
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Urban and peri-urban energy access
An
assessment of the household energy situation in the rapidly growing
urban and peri-urban areas of South Africa and to identify viable and
proven policy options that can assist in providing clean, affordable and
more sustainable energy services
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• Gender research in Africa
Investigates the triangular relationship between gender, energy and
information and communication technologies, in order to understand how
their unequal use as resources, may undermine development efforts
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Alleviation of poverty through the provision of local energy services
Project
aims to find sustainable mechanisms for the effective delivery of
improved local energy services to poor communities in South Africa
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Create acceptance
The
project investigates cultural influences on renewable energy acceptance
and tools for the development of communication strategies to promote
acceptance
among key actor groups
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Income generation through productive uses of energy
The
comparative study investigates SMEs and the impact of energy and
complementary services (such as business development training and access
to finance) on economic growth and poverty reduction in South Africa,
Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria
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• Renewable energies for Africa
A study on
renewable energies in Southern Africa including relevant case studies of
initiatives that have been successfully implemented as well as those
that have not been successfully implemented to provide lessons for
future initiatives
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• Development
of a holistic energy model
Socio-economic data and load profiles from the National Load Research
Database are combined to allow the study of determinants of energy
demand in two rural villages in South Africa.
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• Securing the
energy future of South Africa through modelling
This project explores, through a scenario-based approach,
future energy demand and the resultant environmental implications
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• Biomass
energy in rural areas in southern Africa
This is a collaborative project in which the ERC is one
of five project partners. The project aims to develop existing rural
energy-economic system models in order to capture user preferences and
changing biomass resources.
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Measuring the
rebound effect of energy efficiency initiatives
An analysis of the human behavioural response to
large-scale energy efficiency and DSM strategies in the residential
sector. Specifically, determining consumers' usage patterns when prices
for an energy service change, looking at differences across income
groups and at factors which affect the behaviour.
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• Gauteng: An
integrated energy plan
A study into pathways of sustainable transformation of
the Gauteng megacity.
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• Free
electricity grants and household consumption
The project uses combined data from the national load
research database in two sites, in combination with a socio-economic
survey, to determine the impact of Free basic electricity grants on the
household energy consumption patterns.
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