Municipal Energy Resilience Fund
Calling Western Cape Municipalities
The Department of Economic Development and Tourism invited Western Cape Municipalities to apply for funding for their municipal energy resilience initiatives. The funding was to be in support of municipal or private sector renewable energy generation, procurement and / or trading within the municipalities’ spatial and administrative jurisdiction.
The outcome of the of the MER Fund resulted in 13 energy studies being funded in 8 Municipalities:
- Stellenbosch Municipality
- Mini IRP/Energy Master Plan
- Updating EMP
- Cost of Supply Study
- Mossel Bay Municipality
- Cost of Supply Study
- Swartland
- Updating of EMP
- Overstrand
- New Cost of Supply Study
- Bitou
- Cost of supply study
- Updating EMP
- Cape Agulhas
- Cost of Supply Study
- Updating of EMP
- Witzenberg
- Updating EMP
- Cost of Supply Study
- George
- Updating of EMP
Progress on the Municipalities can be seen in the table below:
| CoSS | EMP | Mini IRP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stellenbosch | In Progress | In Progress | Completed |
| Mossel Bay | Completed | DLG Funded | |
| Overstrand | Completed | DLG Funded | |
| Swartland | N/A | Completed | |
| Cape Agulhas | In Progress | In Progress | |
| George | N/A | Completed | |
| Witzenberg | In Progress | In Progress | |
| Bitou | Completed | Completed | |
| Drakenstein | N/A | DLG Funded |