Cape Town’s State of Energy and Carbon

About

We published our first State of Energy Report in 2003, and a new edition has been published every five years since then. The publication’s title was changed to State of Energy and Carbon (SOEC) in the 2021 edition in light of our commitment to decarbonise.

The report provides a data-rich overview of Cape Town’s energy system, linking it to an overview of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. The GHG accounting process presents an opportunity to explore the connections between systems across the City, including:

water
wastewater
solid waste
transport
green spaces
agriculture

With energy in the foreground, this systems-view draws on a wide range of national, provincial, industry and municipal sources to provide a useful and comprehensive resource for policy-making, research and planning.

Since the approval of our 2050 Energy Strategy, which outlines a vision of energy security for a prosperous Cape Town, monitoring the changing energy landscape is essential to managing our progress towards this commitment.

As a way to increase operational transparency both in the municipality and wider Cape Town, the SOEC data has been made publicly available on the Open Data Portal, so that it can be easily repurposed and distributed.

Access past reports

The full data sets and detailed supporting metadata from the reports is also publicly available on the City’s Open Data Portal to make deployment of the data quicker and easier.

Contact us

For general enquiries or comments on the report, contact:

Sustainable Energy Markets

Email:
SustainableEnergyMarkets.Enquiries@capetown.gov.za

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