A5056575329- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Electric Power System Optimization
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Microgrid Control and Optimization
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Renewable energy and sustainable power systems
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis
University of Pretoria
2018-2023
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
2017-2019
University of Cape Town
2011-2016
It is an undeniable fact that energy systems all over the world are at point of a paradigm shift as need for decarbonisation eminent and unavoidable. The pressure to decarbonise mounts year after year. Since two thirds anthropogenic greenhouse‐gas emissions come from sector, more about reducing in system than any other world. increased has resulted installation photovoltaic (PV) wind countries such China, India, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Japan USA. use intermittent renewable resources...
The cost of producing electricity with solar photovoltaic (PV) has decreased drastically in the past 10 years, so much that installed PV capacity increased exponentially between 2010 and 2018. South Africa is endowed a technical potential 72 GW for rooftop systems, but economic largely unknown. As result, integrated resource plan assumes an annual installation 200 MW distributed generation will be made 2018 2030. This study evaluates systems residential sector within metropolitan cities...
Energy modelling serves as a crucial tool for informing both energy policy and strategy development. But the process is faced with sectoral data structural challenges. Among all sectors, residential sector usually presents huge challenge to profession due dynamic nature of sector. The brought by fact that each an every household in region may have different consumption characteristics computing power available models cannot incorporate details individual characteristics. Even if there was...
Distributed renewable energy competitiveness is becoming a reality in most countries resulting an increase of installed capacity both developed and developing countries. Mexico, India, Germany, Zambia South Africa have experienced the lowest average tariffs for solar photovoltaic (PV) through their competitive bidding processes between 2015 2017. In Africa, latest bid resulted PV costing R0.62/kWh, while grid electricity tariff R0.83/kWh. It anticipated that cost will continue to decline...
The drive towards net-zero strategy has resulted in the global energy systems shifting from generating electricity technologies which emit more emissions to renewable that less emissions. research question for this paper is "What least cost supply technology mix Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) main campus year 2040?". bottom-up methodology was applied using PLEXOS-tool framework. Two scenarios were analyzed, Business as Usual (BAU) scenario, considers existing options...