Energy Access

This paper focuses on the energy dimension of urban sustainable development through three key themes that are central to socially acceptable, resource efficient future cities: 1) the spatial form of cities, 2) transport and 3) electricity provision to informal settlements. (Wolpe P, Reddy Y, & Euston-Brown M 2012).

An overview of experiences, lessons and challenges with informal electrification in South Africa, drawing primarily on eThekwini and Cape Town’s informal electrification programmes (Sustainable Energy Africa, 2012).

This guideline provides information to municipalities on the suite of options available for the provision of safe, affordable and reliable alternative energy technologies to low-income households, and the suite of appropriate energy-saving technologies (SALGA, 2014).

This booklet is a shortened version of a research paper produced by Sustainable Energy Africa considers the challenges and opportunities to energy access at local government level with a particular focus on electrification and issues relating to urban energy poverty (Sustainable Energy Africa, 2014).

This research paper produced by Sustainable Energy Africa considers the challenges and opportunities to energy access at local government level with a particular focus on electrification and issues relating to urban energy poverty (Sustainable Energy Africa, 2014).

This report assesses the suitability and appropriateness of alternative clean energy technologies to meet the primary household energy requirements of cooking, lighting, water heating and space heating in densely-populated unelectrified informal communities in Gauteng (Produced by SEA, SED & UCT for Gauteng Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2015).

This booklet briefly examines alternative energy technologies and associated energy sources available in the market that are cleaner, appropriate, applicable and sustainable relative to those that are currently available and used by informal households for their domestic energy requirements (Sustainable Energy Africa, 2016).

“Your Piece of the Sun”, a captivating film (25 minutes long) produced by Lloyd Ross and Joelle Chesselet for Sustainable Energy Africa, explores the challenges of energy, gender and poverty in urban South Africa.

This toolkit’s principal aim is to be a key reference document for the development of sustainable business models and operational off-grid projects in South Africa (Carbon Trust & CSIR, 2017).