Case made for decentralised energy supply
City of Cape Town calls for decentralised, liberalised energy markets in consultations on the draft Integrated Resource Plan
Future energy planning should provide for decentralised, liberalised energy markets, City of Cape Town director of electricity services Les Rencontre said in a submission on the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and Integrated Energy Plan. "Centralised planning has not delivered optimum solutions," Rencontre told participants in the Cape Town consultations about the plan on Tuesday. The third leg of consultations was held in the city following those in Johannesburg and Durban. He said an institutional regime change was required to allow local governments to plan their own energy futures, and an independent system operator had to be established. It should also provide for small-scale revenue-embedded generation within municipal electricity networks, as well as direct purchases of energy from independent power producers by municipalities, particularly by larger metros.
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