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GREEN ENERGY

Hilton Trollip, senior researcher, Energy Research Centre, Wikus Kruger, research fellow, Graduate School of Business, UCT, Prof Sampson Mamphweli, Stellenbosch University, Robert Aitken, director, Restio Energy, and Manfred Braune, Executive Director at the Green Building Council South Africa

This course will focus on the development, growth and prospects for green energy becoming the new normal. It will begin by describing the global drivers of the energy transition and some potential future scenarios, globally and in South Africa. It will then explore developments on the African continent, while subsequent lectures will concentrate on individual aspects of the transition to Green energy.

LECTURE TITLES

The coming energy transition Hilton Trollip
Energy development in Africa Wikus Kruger
Bio energy Professor Sampson Mamphweli
Understanding the rapid commercialisation of the SHS and mini-grid markets in AfricaRobert Aitken
Green buildings Manfred Braune

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Date: 21 January

Time: 17:00 pm

COURSE FEES: R550.00 Staff and Students R275.00

Venue: LT3 Kramer Law Building UCT

Hilton Trollip has an MS Electrical Engineering (1983). After doing engineering for some ten years he moved into policy development and analysis in 1991. Since 2007 this has increasingly focussed on sustainable energy systems and economies both as a practitioner, as principal Engineer, Energy and Climate Change for the local government of the City of Cape Town, and as a consultant and researcher. His current main interests are academically orientated studies of the politics of sustainability transitions and multi/transdisciplinary studies and implementation of energy transitions, especially within contexts of transitions to sustainable economies and energy systems within developing countries characterised by severe inequality and poverty.

Wikus Kruger is a junior research fellow and PhD candidate in the Management Programme in Infrastructure Regulation and Reform (MIR), based at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) of the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on independent power producer (IPP) and emerging power investments in Africa, especially focused on renewable energy and energy access. Wikus previously worked as a Research Officer in the Energy, Poverty and Development thematic group, at the Energy Research Centre, based at the University of Cape Town. He was also a senior consultant with Restio Energy for seven years, working mainly on sustainable energy in Southern and Eastern Africa. He furthermore worked with the EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) in Brussels during 2012. He has experience in market and business development of clean energy technologies, technical assistance to national governments, national energy sector policy analysis and development, energy sector reform, and technology cooperation and demonstration.

Professor Sampson Mamphweli holds a Masters degree from the University of Venda and a PhD from the University of Fort Hare. He worked as a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Fort Hare where he started working as a Researcher while conducting his PhD in 2005. Prof Mamphweli also possesses a number of certificates in Renewable Energy and a Mini-MBA certificate in Green Energy from the Green Power Academy in Britain. He has published more than 45 research articles in peer reviewed journals including three book chapters, he has presented more than 36 research articles in national and international conferences including 8 invited presentations and keynote addresses. He has supervised 18 Masters and PhD students to completion. Prof Mamphweli previously raised funding and implemented a considerable number of renewable energy projects in the Eastern Cape during his time at the University of Fort Hare. His primary area of specialization is biomass gasification and biogas digesters. He also managed a number of renewable energy projects on behalf of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture at the University of Fort Hare. Prof Mamphweli is a member of the South African Institute of Physics. He is also a member of a number of committees that deal with renewable energy issues at national government level. Prof Mamphweli started off his career at the South African National Parks before moving to the University of Cape Town where he worked as a Research Technician before joining the University of Fort Hare as an Eskom Research Fellow in 2005. He is a recipient of the prestigious University of Fort Hare Vice Chancellor's Emerging Researcher medal for the year 2012. Prof Mamphweli joined Stellenbosch University in July 2017 as Director for the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies.

Director at Restio Energy, Robert Aitken has over 20 years’ experience in the energy access sector having worked with a range of off-grid and renewable energy technologies, resources and delivery formats including mini-grids, SHSs, improved cookstoves, biogas digesters, charcoal & briquettes, etc. His expertise and interests are in establishing the necessary conditions for the successful implementation, operation and uptake of off-grid renewable energy technologies. This includes issues such as appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks, off-grid planning, project management, maturing technologies, access to finance, business models, market development, tariffs, technical standards, etc. He has significant programme management experience having been planning manager on the establishment of one of Africa’s first off-grid utilities, he was manager on the Kigoma solar PV programme (funded by MCA-T), a three year multi-million US$ initiative in Kigoma, Tanzania, he was international team leader on an SE4All funded initiative providing technical assistance to the South African government on establishing an off-grid management authority and more recently was appointed Chief technical advisor [part-time] on a 5 years UNDP off-grid programme in Lesotho. Robert has worked expensively in Southern and East Africa as well as Asia.

Manfred Braune is the Chief Technical Officer at the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA), heading up all technical, education and certification related matters since 2010. He has also been responsible for directing various special projects at the GBCSA, including the Cato Manor Green Street, My Green Home, Cost of Green and the Green Lease Toolkit. A registered professional electrical engineer, he has a background as an engineer and a sustainability consultant with the WSP Group, where he worked as a consulting engineer for about 10 years, designing and delivering a range of projects. He jointly headed up WSP’s green building business unit (WSP Green by Design) with Eric Noir for three years. During his time there the WSP Green by Design achieved the first 4 Green Star ratings in South Africa, and established the first building energy and thermal modelling unit in the country.

Manfred also sits on the University of Pretoria’s Construction/Property Studies Advisory Board, as well as being a judge on the ESKOM eta Awards.

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