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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"integrated resource plan"”.
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Integrated resource plan for South Africa using electricity load profiles
Integrated resource planning aims to fulfil electricity requirements with supply and demand resources. Least cost resources are optimised as supply expansions compete with measures to modify the load in meeting energy services. A demand side study is conducted to determine representative load …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of the proposed build plans as presented in the integrated resource plan
… movement towards low-carbon technologies. The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is an operational process by which these concerns as well as other policy goals are addressed. This is done with the aim of providing a long-term plan for the electricity sector. The current modelling approach used in …
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The politics of electricity planning in South Africa: A review of dominant advocacy coalitions seeking to influence the Integrated Resource Plan of 2010 (IRP2010), and its update in 2013
… events that are the focus of the research: the Integrated Resource Plan of 2010 (IRP2010), and its 2013 update report. The research is mainly concerned with the political influence exerted by the identified advocacy coalitions and the political context they acted within, during the period under …
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Modelling the potential impact of net metering in South Africa
… within the country and how this affects the planning of the energy sector in the future, which is done through processes such as the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). Using a combination of electricity tariffs and solar PV price projections, and the Bass diffusion model, an estimated range of …
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Investigation into the potential of industrial cogeneration in South Africa
… of the future of the SA energy system. The integrated resource plan for electricity (2012) presents findings that 2GW of cogeneration capacity can be realised by 2020. This figure is unconfirmed and the sources of this proposed cogenerationdevelopment have not been scrutinized. These …
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An LCA study comparing e-books read on an Apple Air iPad to printed books in South Africa
… the effect that changing the energy mix as planned in the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) has on the environmental impacts and cumulative energy demand of both systems, and the effect of multiple users per system. The initial hypothesis of this study was that reading 21 e-books from a …
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Influence of geometry on the dynamic behaviour of steel tubular towers for onshore wind turbines
… and availability. As part of the country's Integrated Resource Plan, these challenges are to be addressed. This involves a 20 year plan which aims to increase electricity supply capacity as well as reduce the reliance on coal power as part of the global trend to become more environmentally …
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NUMSA's Socially Owned Renewable Energy Proposal (2012) in Response to the Green Economy Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… response to the South African government's 2010 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) which set out a twenty-year plan to increase South Africa's renewable energy sources through public-private partnerships. The South African government's IRP and its emphasis on privatisation, green technology and green …
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Legal consideratios in developing and implementing the 2018 draft intergrated resources plan (IRP): a case study of the nuclear sector
The 2018 Draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) published by the Department of Energy (DoE) of South Africa informs the government’s electricity demand projections until 2050. They are published under the authority of the Electricity Regulation Act (ERA) of 2006. The Electricity Regulations on New …
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A regulatory assessment of the Build-Own-Operate model for New Nuclear Build in South Africa
… operate and maintain a NPP. South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan 2016 indicates that the base case scenario includes a target date of 2037 for the first unit of a NNB programme. This date moves to 2026 when the carbon budget is included in the forecast. The National Nuclear Regulator …
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The role of concentrating solar power in a South African large scale renewable energy scenario
… projected for 2050 by the Draft South African Integrated Energy Plan reference case. The dispatch of electrical energy from CSP plants with thermal energy storage has the potential to support other more intermittent renewable energy technologies. To evaluate this potential role, CSP production …
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A Guideline for Establishing Local Energy-Efficiency Programs in Virginia
From a big picture perspective, investing in energy efficiency in the existing stock of residential buildings in the United States brings unquestioned economic, employment and environmental benefits. The aggregation of energy and dollar savings from millions of small improvements in efficiency adds …