SANEDI & Energy in South Africa

Presenter: Dr Karen Surridge Talbot

Centre Manager RECORD

karenst@sanedi.org.za

17 July 2014

South African National Energy

Development Institute

(SANEDI)

SANEDI function and mandate

The Energy Act, 2008 (No.34 of 2008) establishes the

South African National Energy Development Institute

(SANEDI)

SANEDI has 2 main functions:

– Energy research and technology development

– Energy efficiency measures implementation

SANEDI may be viewed as the merger of SANERI and

NEEA

SANEDI strives to bridge the gap between R&D and

demonstration & implementation

A combination of state, donor and private sector funding

would allow for key projects to be accelerated, leading to

faster deployment and more employment and local

manufacturing opportunities

SANEDI project involvement

Pre-feasibility

Feasibility Detailed design

Demo/Pilot Commercial

SANEDI SANEDI/Private

sector

SANEDI/State owned

entity/Private Sector

SANEDI structure

RE Research and Demo

Centre

EE Research and Demo

Centre

Green Transport

Research and Demo Centre

Fossil Fuels, CCS Research

and Demo Centre

Centre for Energy

Systems Analysis & Research

Working for Energy

SANEDI

Management

Wind Atlas; Solar

(PV&CSP); BioEn; Ocean

National Targets;

Monitoring &

Verification

LPG, CNG & Electric Vehicles

Carbon Capture and Storage; Clean Coal Technologies; Oil & Gas

Starting up with energy data

management and smart grids

Predominantly off-grid; energy for poverty

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South African Energy Chain

Main End Use – Electricity and Liquid Fuels

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SUPPLY TRANSFORM TRANSPORT END USE

Oil

Natural Gas

Coal

Gas

Electricity

Eskom

and Others

Coal

PetroS

A

Export

Sasol

Road/Rail

Pipeline

Oil Refineries Rail

Road

Pipeline

Liquid

Fuels

Biomass Wood Person/Road

Hydro

Nuclear

Transmission

Wires

“Washery”

Koeberg

Sasol

Renewable energy and the

Global/South African landscape

Context

Global renewable power generating capacity reached

26% and supplied 21.7% of global electricity demand by

end 2012 (Ren21 GSR, 2013)

Total renewable power capacity worldwide exceeded

1470GW by end 2012 (Ren21 GSR, 2013)

SA among highest emitters of carbon dioxide in the

world:

– More than 75% of primary energy requirement from

fossil fuels

– SA ranked 12th in the world in terms of top emitters

per capita

Context

Urgent need:

– Reduce fossil fuel dependency

– Reduce carbon footprint

– Diversify energy mix and supply

Possible solution???

– Renewable Energy (RE) – resources abundant,

sustainable, can be quickly implemented, offer work

opportunities and have a much lower impact on the

environment

Drivers

Increasing energy equity, reducing poverty and

using energy for job creation

Climate Change

– Global warming

– CO2 emissions

Energy supply diversification

– Imbalance of reserves

– Energy security

Renewable Energy

Resources

Renewable Energy Sources

Biomass Solar Wind Ocean

Natural resources

Naturally replenished

Global Solar resource

http://www.altestore.com/howto/Solar-Electric-Power/Reference-Materials/Solar-Insolation-Map-World/a43/

South African Solar resource

http://www.solar-focus.co.za/includes/thumpimage. php?pid=18&action=contpic&nwidth=500

Global wind resource

http://www.matternetwork.com/2008/12/hi-res-map-make-wind.cfm

South African wind resource

http://www.crses.sun.ac.za/technologies-wind.php

Global biomass resource

Crop residue, 489.5 Mtoe

Wood, 1908 Mtoe

Energy crops, 3253 Mtoe

Animal waste, 994 Mtoe

Municipal waste, 516

Mtoe

Adapted from data found in: Karekezi S., Lata K. and Teixeira S. (2004). Traditional Biomass Energy: Improving its use and moving to modern energy use, International Conference for Renewable Energies, Bonn

South African biomass resource

Agricultural 12.3 Mt/a

Forestry 5 Mt/a

Energy Crops 67 Mt/a

Invasive Plant spp.

8.7 Mt/a

Lynd et al. 2003. Plant Biomass Conversion to Fuels and Commodity Chemicals in South Africa: A Third Chapter? South

African Journal of Science 99: 499 – 507.

Global wave resource

South African wave resource

Exploitable RE resources in South Africa

SA has a reasonable wind energy resource,

geographically dispersed allowing for security of supply

SA has a world-class wave energy resource,

predominantly along the south and west coasts

SA has one of the best solar regimes in the world - most

abundant renewable resource in the country

SA biomass and hydro energy resources are restricted

due to limited water

Energy from waste more readily available and exploitable

Barriers to Rapid Deployment

Policy/incentives

Skills development

Support for R&D

Support for pilots and demonstration

Awareness/market demand

Development of standards

RECORD

RECORD work packages

Coordinate Renewable Energy

Research

Facilitate RE research & collaboration

Contribute to RE skills development

Marketing and awareness creation of

RECORD and RE in SA & Support RE

business development

Current collaborative Projects

Solar Roadmap (collaboration DOE, SANEDI, DST, GIZ and IEA)

• Mapping solar technologies and the way in which they fit in SA’s long term

energy plan

• Done in parallel with the DST solar technology study and the DOE IRP

Renewable Energy Testing, Training and Demo Facilities (collaboration

SANEDI, GIZ, CSIR, TIA, Green Cape, CPUT, SU, NMMU)

• Centre for Solar Technology, Development and Innovation (CSTDI) spread

across country at centres of excellence

• South African Renewable Energy Technology Centre (SARETEC) at CPUT

• Centre for Energy Research (CER) at NMMU PV testing and research facility

Waste to energy pilot plant (collaboration)

• Construction due to be completed at end of 2014

Solar measuring station project (collaboration GIZ, SANEDI, DST, SU, NMMU,

SAWS, USTDA, Eskom)

• Construction of solar MET stations in specific locaions in SA

• Ultimate goal to produced a verified ground meansurement solar map of the

resource available in SA

International Collaborations

REEEP – Southern African Secretariat

Contract to be renewed (next 6 months)

2 people

IEA – 3 Implementation Agreements

OES (co-membership with Eskom) (ExCo 2013)

Bioenergy (ExCo 2013)

SHC

EU FP7 – National Contact Point

Road shows on the 2013 Energy call

Achieved in 2013

Hosted IEA BioEnergy (May 2013) and

Ocean Energy Systems (Oct 2013) ExCos

Established Algal biofuel research platform

on basis of completed published “State of

Algal Bioenergy Research in South Africa”

study

Achieved in 2013 (cont.)

Continual relevant info shared with industry and

action on special requests therefrom viz. hosting

of industry association (SASTELLA, SAPVIA,

SOLTRAIN, SACAA) stakeholder engagements

and networking events

RE awareness raising through school art

competition resulting in a calendar

“State of Energy Research in SA”

study in final stage

Achieved in 2013 (cont.)

SARETEC established (by all partners) with an

advisory board constituted and first batch of wind

energy technicians trained in Germany (July

2013) and first batch of Train-The-Trainers

completed in Germany (Oct-Dec 2013)

Support (financial & technical) to Solar energy

technology roadmap (SETRM)

Wind energy and surveilance radar research

continued and coordinated between RECORD,

SAAF & CSIR

Achieved in 2013 (cont.)

NMMU/SANEDI/RECORD PV expertise and

training initiative

Ocean energy resource reports complete, edited

and in public domain for comment

– Establishment of MEASA (in process)

Catalysed Eskom and SARETEC collaboration

discussions for training of 2000 PV energy

technicians

DBREV bursary supported for 2nd consecutive

year

RECORD RERE award through SANEA

RECORD RERE Award

Ladies, do you know your place?