Implementing Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management : South Africa’s Standard Offer Model

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO ENERGY;    ACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICES;    AFFORDABLE ENERGY;    AIR;    ALLOCATION;   

RP-ID  :  69033

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This report evaluates opportunities forSouth Africa to adopt a low carbon development pathwaythrough a standard offer model. The standard offer aims to:provide customers and energy service companies apredetermined amount for delivered energy or demand savings,allow them to efficiently and rapidly structure and proposeenergy efficiency and demand side management projects,streamline the project approval process and scale-up projectdevelopment and implementation, simplify the contractsbetween the utility and the energy service companies orcustomers, reduce the burden on the utility staff forproject evaluation and processing, provide transparency toproject proponents on the payments for delivered savings,facilitate the leveraging of commercial financing for energyefficiency projects, and reduce the utility's risk bymaking the payments.The report concludes that while SouthAfrica has taken important steps towards implementing keyelements of a national mitigation strategy; some practicalproblems, capacity limitations, and market and institutionalbarriers have affected the progress to date. The supportoutlined in this briefing note has helped to diagnose andaddress some of these limitations and barriers by adaptinglessons from international experience to South Africa.