Cape Town’s most successful inner-city business owners are heeding the call to conserve power for the continued prosperity of the city’s vital central business district (CBD). Leading property developers, world-renowned restaurateurs and established merchants have given their full backing to the ...
The cost of new investments combined with traditionally low electricity prices caused an underfunding of ESKOM and eventually resulted in a sharp rise of electricity rates by about 16% annually (on average) over the last 10 years (City of Cape Town (2013a); Kohler, 2014, Pegels, 2010). Th...
For example,City of Cape Town breaks downallows people with homes valued at over R1 million to pay a basic home user charge that covers the cost of keeping them connected, no matter how much power they use, some municipalities like Ekurhuleni have different tariff systems depend...
This study explores the relationship between electricity prices and economic growth in South Africa within a multivariate framework over the period 1985-2014. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test is implemented to determ... H Khobai,G Mugano,PL Roux - 《International Journal of En...
In a dual decomposition approach, the introduced Lagrange multipliers are interpreted as “prices”. In this way, the dual decomposition method provides a mathematical foundation based on RTP and derives each pricing algorithm of DSM depending on each condition of the target electric power network. ...
activities, strong aggregation, stable groups and similar behaviors [11]. From the perspective of the factors influencing electricity consumption, residential community electricity consumption is susceptible to the combined effects of several factors, such as household structure, electricity prices, customer ...