The City of Cape Town has received 22 additional Energy Performance Certificates from the South African National Energy Development Institute (Sanedi), bringing the City’s total number of these certificates to 25.
This after the City became the very first municipality in the country to receive Energy Performance Certificates for its municipal facilities last year.
An Energy Performance Certificate is an indication of the amount of energy used in a building in kilowatt hour per square meter per year. It is then measured against a nationally regulated benchmark. This allows building owners to know how much energy their building uses, but also to compare this against buildings of a similar type.
Since the regulations were gazetted in December 2021 the City introduced its energy performance compliance initiative while using the opportunity to bolster the City’s building energy data collection systems through the state-of-the-art SmartFacility platform.
Mayco member for energy Beverley van Reenen says the City has made great strides in complying with the regulations.
“We are leading by example and this is a testament to the City’s commitment to reducing its energy usage and to addressing climate change. Climate action is a team effort and we call on other property owners to collect their own energy data to see what opportunities there are for greater efficiency.
“Our EPC compliance initiative is one of the City’s important steps towards achieving the net zero carbon municipal buildings target by 2030 and the broader city-wide ambition to be carbon neutral by 2050.”
The 22 City buildings that have energy performance certificates are:
- 50 Wale Street municipal building
- Bloemhof Electricity Headquarters
- Brackenfell Municipal building
- Brackenfell Training Centre
- Durbanville Municipal building
- Fezeka Municipal building
- Goodwood Municipal building
- Hillstar Traffic Building
- Keller House municipal building
- Khayelitsha Training Centre
- Kraaifontein Administrative Complex
- Milnerton Municipal Administrative building
- Ndabeni Fleet Admin building
- Ndabeni Fleet Workshops
- Observatory Metro Police Academy
- Parow Municipal building
- Pinelands Municipal building
- Plumstead Municipal building
- Royal Ascot municipal building
- Somerset West Municipal building
- Spyker Street Electricity depot
- Strand Municipal Administrative building
