Energy Retrofit in the Republic of South Africa

Abstract

This report is mainly based in four different data sources all based in energy efficiency and its implementation in new as well old buildings. They are namely: Clean Energy Solutions – an international institute (supported by UN-Energy and the Clean Energy Ministerial), which helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of clean energy technologies; Bridging Information Gap of Energy Efficiency in Buildings (bigEE) - an international initiative of research institutes for technical and policy advice and public agencies in the field of energy and climate, co-ordinated internationally by the Wuppertal Institute of Germany and implemented nationally by South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI). Its aim is to develop the international web-based knowledge platform called http://www.bigee.net for energy efficiency in buildings, building-related technologies, and appliances in the world’s main climatic zones, which will be discussed in the future pages of the report; The last source that enriches this work comes from a scientific article covering Barriers to Retrofitting Buildings for Energy Efficiency in South Africa.