Energy is essential to keep life, production, growth and development going. However, being the main contributor to climate change, energy also constitute one of the biggest challenges that the world and humanity face today. This calls for new green and sustainable energy solutions, behavioural change, not to mention new policies, on global and local scales. Danish consulting engineers play an active role in this necessary turnaround. For instance, when we work with national governments to enhance international cooperation to facilitate policy dialogue and access to shared sources of energy, when we design and implement stand-alone energy systems, provide technical assistance to local authorities, assist governments with energy efficiency strategies, or when we design integrated renewable energy solutions, including wind, solar, biomass and hydro.
PROJECT: NATIONAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY STRATEGY – GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Supporting the Department of Energy in South Africa
in developing their post-2015 National Energy efficiency Strategy, the vision was to embrace the concept of energy efficiency, creating socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth, and boosting job creation while leading technological innovation across the region. The strategy aims to contribute towards reducing the national energy consumption across the economy by 29 percent by 2030. The strategy also recommends the introduction of various incentives and financing schemes that will encourage the uptake of energy efficiency by stakeholders within the key sectors, and the need for an enabling framework rooted in monitoring compliance, enforcement and periodic evaluation of progress.
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
COMPANY: DEM
SECONDARY GOALS: 13 & 17