Client: GIZ - South Africa
Target countries: Germany, South Africa
Services:
- Assessing the approaches of German municipal utilities in the context of the power sector liberalisation and the energy transition. Considered approaches included:
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- Contracting (energy supply contracting, finance contracting/leasing, and energy performance contracting).
- Energy efficiency services.
- Investments in renewable energies.
- Power trading, and trading of flexible loads.
- Grid stabilisation and smart distribution grids.
- Comprehensive desk research and interviews with many municipal utilities.
- Preliminary conclusions in regards to applicability of these approaches in South Africa.
- Good practices for selected approaches: district storage solutions, power supply contracting for tenants (‘tenant power model’), and investments in renewable energy systems.
The study can be downloaded:
New Business Models for Municipalities in the Energy Sector
http://www.cityenergy.org.za/uploads/ resource_406.pdf