Capacity Building
Boosting professional skills helps promoting reliable, affordable and clean energy.
To equip individuals and public organisations with the expertise and tools required to shape South Africa’s sustainable energy future, SAGEN supports tailored training and knowledge exchange formats to refine expertise, strengthen the capabilities of stakeholders and foster a collaborative environment for sustainable energy practices and proactive engagement in the ongoing energy transition.
Project Highlights
Alongside the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES) at the University of Stellenbosch, we developed accredited short courses on power systems planning and operations as well as green hydrogen.
In partnership with the Power Futures Lab (PFL) at the UCT Graduate School of Business, we supported the development of accredited short courses exploring energy policy and regulation.
In collaboration with the African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at the Wits Business School, we contributed to the expansion of a new electricity stream (incl. 7 courses) for the Post Graduate Diploma in Energy Leadership (PDEL).
SAGEN designed and hosted journalist and communicator training as well as media training in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
SAGEN continues the collaboration with AELC and PFL to address the need for expertise in power markets in South Africa. The country is undergoing a rapid energy transition, an ongoing energy supply crisis, and a comprehensive power sector reform. South Africa aims to create a competitive power market to ensure fair competition among electricity generators and to procure flexibility and ancillary services needed for system stability with increased distributed renewable energy generation.
A significant challenge to achieving this goal is the scarcity of expertise in power markets within the country. This scarcity is evident in the lack of dedicated educational programmes on power markets in South African universities and the limited availability of local experts to guide governmental and private sector stakeholders on power market design, regulations, and international good practices.
In partnership with universities, we aim to enhance local expertise and access to knowledge through e.g. course participation, exchange formats.
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Key Results
Accredited short courses on power systems planning and operation, energy policy and regulation, electricity governance, and green hydrogen at 3 universities.
860 professionals have attended these short courses to date
Trained in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Tshwane