World Bank2013-02-262013-02-262011-06https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12508This report evaluates opportunities for South Africa to adopt a low carbon development pathway through a standard offer model. The standard offer aims to: provide customers and energy service companies a predetermined amount for delivered energy or demand savings, allow them to efficiently and rapidly structure and propose energy efficiency and demand side management projects, streamline the project approval process and scale-up project development and implementation, simplify the contracts between the utility and the energy service companies or customers, reduce the burden on the utility staff for project evaluation and processing, provide transparency to project proponents on the payments for delivered savings, facilitate the leveraging of commercial financing for energy efficiency projects, and reduce the utility's risk by making the payments. The report concludes that while South Africa has taken important steps towards implementing key elements of a national mitigation strategy; some practical problems, capacity limitations, and market and institutional barriers have affected the progress to date. The support outlined in this briefing note has helped to diagnose and address some of these limitations and barriers by adapting lessons from international experience to South Africa.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO ENERGYACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICESAFFORDABLE ENERGYAIRALLOCATIONALLOWANCEAPPROACHAVAILABILITYCALCULATIONCAPITAL COSTSCARBONCARBON DIOXIDECARBON FINANCECLEAN ENERGYCLEAN TECHNOLOGYCLIMATECLIMATE CHANGECLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTSCOCO2COALCOMMERCIAL ENTERPRISESCOMPACT FLUORESCENT LAMPSCONSUMPTION OF ENERGYCOSTS OF ELECTRICITYDEMAND FOR ELECTRICITYDEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENTECONOMIC GROWTHEFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTEFFICIENT EQUIPMENTEFFICIENT LIGHTINGELECTRIC UTILITIESELECTRICITY CONSUMPTIONELECTRICITY COUNCILELECTRICITY DEMANDELECTRICITY INDUSTRYELECTRICITY SALESELECTRICITY SAVINGSELECTRICITY SECTORELECTRICITY SUPPLYELECTRICITY SYSTEMELECTRICITY TARIFFELECTRICITY TARIFFSEMISSIONEMISSION LEVELSEMISSIONSENERGY BILLSENERGY CONSUMPTIONENERGY CONVERSIONENERGY COST SAVINGSENERGY DEMANDENERGY DEVELOPMENTENERGY EFFICIENCYENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURESENERGY INTENSIVEENERGY MANAGEMENTENERGY POLICYENERGY PRICESENERGY RESEARCHENERGY SAVINGSENERGY SAVINGS PERFORMANCEENERGY SECURITYENERGY SERVICEENERGY SERVICE COMPANYENERGY USAGEENERGY USEENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTSENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITYESPFINANCIAL INCENTIVESFUELGAS COMPANYGENERATING CAPACITYGENERATIONGENERATION CAPACITYGHGGHGSGREENHOUSEGREENHOUSE GASGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTHALIDEHALIDESHEATHEAT PUMPSINCOMEINDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONSINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCYJOBSKILOWATT HOURLOAD SHEDDINGMARGINAL ABATEMENTMERCURYNUCLEAR ENERGYNUCLEAR POWEROILPEAK DEMANDPETROLEUMPOLLUTIONPOWERPOWER CRISISPOWER SHORTAGESPOWER STATIONSPOWER SYSTEMPRICE INCREASEREFINERIESRENEWABLE ENERGYRENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCESRENEWABLE POWERRENEWABLE POWER PRODUCTIONRENEWABLE RESOURCESRESIDENTIAL CONSUMERSRETAIL ELECTRICITYRETAIL ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERSRURAL ELECTRIFICATIONSCENARIOSSODIUMSOLAR WATER HEATERSSOLAR WATER HEATINGSUPPLY SIDESUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTSUSTAINABLE ENERGYTAX REVENUESUTILITY BILLSVEHICLE EFFICIENCYWorld Bank10.1596/12508