South African Residential Electricity Price Increase Between 2013 and 2020: An Online Desktop Study

Bruwer, JP

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“…The cost of electricity to residences in South Africa has increased significantly between 2013 and 2020. This has led to households to look for ways to reduce the amount spent on electricity [45]. The findings are consistent with previous empirical studies on GFT and proenvironmental behaviour.…”

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Determinants of Household Energy Saving Behaviour: An Application of the Goal Framing Theory

Fatoki¹

2022

IJSDP

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Households are an important group that can be targeted to help reduce energy consumption and mitigate climate change. Drawing on the Goal Framing Theory (GFT), the study investigated the determinants of household energy (electricity) saving behaviour. The study examined the direct effects of the three principal constructs of the GFT (gain motivation, normative motivation and hedonic motivation) on household electricity saving behaviour. In addition, the study investigated the mediating effects of normative and hedonic motivations in the relationship been gain motivation and energy saving behaviour. The study adopted the quantitative research approach and the cross-sectional survey method was used to collect data from the respondents. The Partial Least Square Structural Equation modelling (PLS SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that gain, normative and hedonic motivations are significantly positively related to household energy saving behaviour. The mediating effects of normative motivation and hedonic motivation in the relationship between gain motivation and electricity saving behaviour are significant. The innovation of the study is the development and testing of a theoretical model that examined both the direct and indirect effects of the GFT constructs in the context of household energy saving behaviour. Empirically, the study contributed to the body of knowledge on the factors that affect household energy saving behaviour. Recommendations include communicating the economic and environmental impact of energy saving behaviour to households.

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Determinants of Household Energy Saving Behaviour: An Application of the Goal Framing Theory

Fatoki¹

2022

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Battery Energy Storage for Photovoltaic Application in South Africa: A Review

Thango

Bokoro

2022

Energies

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Despite the significant slowdown of economic activity in South Africa by virtue of the COVID-19 outbreak, load shedding or scheduled power outages remained at a high level. The trend of rising load-shedding hours has persisted throughout most of the year 2022. Operational issues within the South African power utility inflamed the unpredictable nature of generation capacity, resulting in unscheduled outages at several generating units, mostly due to multiple breakdowns. To forestall substantial spikes in energy costs, an increasing number of enterprises and homeowners have started to gradually adopt renewable energy technologies to sustain their operational demand. Therefore, there is an increase in the exploration and investment of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to exploit South Africa’s high solar photovoltaic (PV) energy and help alleviate production losses related to load-shedding-induced downtime. As a result, the current work presents a comprehensive and consequential review conducted on the BESS specifically for solar PV application and in the South African context. The research investigations carried out on BESS for PV application are crucially examined, drawing attention to their capacities, shortcomings, constraints, and prospects for advancement. This investigation probed several areas of interest where the BESS-PV scheme is adopted, viz., choice of battery technology, mitigating miscellaneous power quality problems, optimal power system control, peak load shaving, South African BESS market and status of some Real BESS-PV projects. The techno-economic case scenario has been proposed in the current research and results yield that lithium-ion batteries are more viable than Lead–acid batteries.

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South African Residential Electricity Price Increase Between 2013 and 2020: An Online Desktop Study

Cited by 2 publications

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Determinants of Household Energy Saving Behaviour: An Application of the Goal Framing Theory

Determinants of Household Energy Saving Behaviour: An Application of the Goal Framing Theory

Battery Energy Storage for Photovoltaic Application in South Africa: A Review

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