Green business opportunities now and in the future

1. Green Business Opportunities
now & in the future!
#FUTUREFIT
27 February 2020
Presenter: Dr Rethabile B Melamu

2. My journey (The power of stories)
The spark:
A lady engineer
Chemical/Environmental Engineering background:
Academia, quasi public-private, government department, government agency

3. My current grind: The Innovation Hub
‘We guide today, so you can help build tomorrow’
• Aim: lead, facilitate and manage sustainable job
creation and inclusive economic growth and
development in the Gauteng City Region
• Aim: enable economic development that is focused on
creating sustainable jobs
• Aim: fostering economic development and
competitiveness through innovation
Green economy Smart industries Bio-economy Township economy

4. My current grind:
Aim: incubation of sustainability focused start ups in the
GCR, and support and coordination of green economy
developments within the GCR
Head of the Green Economy Unit, within TIHMC: the coordination
and implementation of sustainable economic development
initiatives primarily in Gauteng by:
– Providing technical support to other sector departments and local
government and
– Providing intelligence with the goal of contributing to economic
competitiveness and job creation in the Gauteng City Region.
– Supporting supporting business growth of innovation based start-ups via
the Climate Innovation Centre South Africa (CICSA)

5. Green Economy: background
First
mention:1989
UK report on
sustainable
development
Revived 20 years later: 2008
UNEP’s proposed economic
paradigm in a report titled:
‘Rethinking Economic Recovery:
A Global Green New Deal’

6. Green economy defined
• It is not a specific sector (a philosophy for
growing/developing an economy)
• 3 Widely accepted characteristics:
Low carbon energy
sources
Source: Australian National
University
Resource efficiency Socially inclusive
Source: https://resource.co/article/resource-
efficiency-fastest-way-cut-carbon-emissions-new-
report-claims-12631

7. Green technologies
• Technologies that advance a concept of a
transition to a greener economy
• Across most economic sectors:
Clean energy technologies
Water efficiency technologies
Waste beneficiation technologies
Alternative building material
e.g., flyash bricks

8. Solar Energy: Global trends
Source: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/09/iea-low-balls-
solar-growth-again/

9. Clean Energy & EEDSM: Electricity demand projections
Share of Renewable Energy
2017: 0.1 TWh 2025: 10.3 TWh

10. Clean Energy & EEDSM: Size of the opportunity
General process for EEDSM activities implementation
General application process for Small Scale Embedded Generation installation
Potential job creation : > 60 000 by 2025

11. Clean Energy & EEDSM: SMME opportunities
Manufacturing opportunities in solar PV
Project development construction and maintenance

12. EEDSM: Electricity saving targets
Electricity saving target per sector for 2025

13. EEDSM: Electricity saving targets
Potential CE and EEDSM interventions per sector by 2025

14. Water Sector: Global trends
Source: https://www.waterwired.org/foreign/page/292 /

15. Water & Sanitation: Overview
System input volume indicating Revenue and Non revenue Water; Source: National Water Services Knowledge System

16. Water & Sanitation: Non-Revenue Water
System input volume indicating Revenue and Non revenue Water; Source: National Water Services Knowledge System

17. Water & Sanitation: SMME Opportunities

18. Water & Sanitation: Public sector size of SMME market
opportunity

19. #Futurefit entrepreneurs take-home
• Opportunities in the green tech space ripe
– Distributed solar PV (Small Scale Embedded
Generation)
– Water sector
• 4IR technologies have enabled new business
models for energy and water sectors
– Customer will be the centre of electricity system
• De-coupling growth from resource
consumption

20. Thank You