Cape Town: leading energy performance municipality

The Metropolis of Cape City continues to prepared the ground with power efficiency certificates (EPCs) displayed in 69 of our municipal property, making them compliant with the SANS 1544:2014 regulation. As well as, roughly 50 extra property have been recognized which will require EPCs, after which the vast majority of our portfolio will probably be compliant.

‘The venture began with a pilot of three buildings in 2021 and now, lower than 18 months later, we’re the main municipality in South Africa. This can be a very important and necessary first step in understanding power use (electrical energy, gasoline, photo voltaic and different) inside our amenities and has allowed us to open up conversations in regards to the significance of driving power effectivity inside our personal property and optimising onsite technology to succeed in internet zero carbon municipal buildings by 2030.

‘The SmartFacility meters proceed to observe power use inside our property and this continues to be an necessary a part of managing our property for optimum efficiency. Virtually 90% of the buildings with an EPC obtained a D-grade or higher indicating that the buildings’ power use is on par or higher than the benchmark. Six buildings had photo voltaic photovoltaic (PV) programs put in which supplied an alternate supply of electrical energy to the related buildings whereas 12 of the 63 buildings had diesel mills supplying the constructing with back-up electrical energy throughout outages and load-shedding.

‘The following step is to drive the journey from EPC to internet zero carbon by way of radical power effectivity and a roll out of photo voltaic PV to our municipal property whereas encouraging constructing and facility managers to enhance constructing efficiency. The Metropolis is aiming to be carbon impartial by 2050 and has dedicated that every one new buildings in Cape City and as many municipal buildings as attainable will probably be internet zero carbon by 2030.

‘Thanks to our Sustainable Vitality Markets workforce which was profitable in working throughout departments to realize these certificates. I look ahead to progressing towards our carbon impartial and internet zero carbon targets,’ stated the Metropolis’s Mayoral Committee Member for Vitality, Councillor Beverley van Reenen.