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TIA Energy Unit Presentation
Meeting with the Western Cape Energy Researchersg p gy
TIA Energy BU DriversTIA Energy BU Drivers
• Security of supply is vital for RSA
• Need for renewable energy technologiesNeed for renewable energy technologies
• Need to support state’s efforts in reducing GHG emissions
• Need to counter energy costs by supporting development
f t t h l iof energy management technologies
Dr. T. L. Mthombeni2
ISO 50001 energy definition: electricity, fuels, steam, heat, compressed air, and other like media
TIA Energy BU Approachgy pp
• Strategic approach:
– Same technology, pursue: innovation, cost reduction, higher efficiencies and
replace imports
• Proven markets, well defined routes to market and easy to penetrate
• Less marketing effort
– New technologies: novelty, cost effectiveness and market readiness
• More marketing effort
• Promote technology to potential off‐takers• Promote technology to potential off‐takers
• Need industrial partners with strong interest and R&D interests
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TIA Energy BU Approach...gy pp
• Three strategic paths:
– Intended strategic technologies: seek to actively stimulate innovation, high development gaps, relatively short time (<=3 years) to market and potentially high impact to marketyears) to market and potentially high impact to market
– Technologies of interest: maintain interest, while the technology development gap might be great, incremental improvements and impact felt in a relatively longer term (>3, =<5 years)
– Technologies to be monitored: development is very incremental, expected time to market very long (>>5 years) and maturedexpected time to market very long (>>5 years) and matured technologies (i.e., narrow development gaps and usually very expensive).
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Energy TechnologiesEnergy TechnologiesGeneration Transmission Distribution End-use
d • Solar •Recovery • Recovery
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ded • Solar
•Wind•CHP (incl. Fuel cells)•Waste and bio energy
•Recovery• Storage• Loss minimization
• Safety
Recovery
• Storage• Efficient utilization• SafetyS l t h tI
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•Ocean power• Energy efficiency• Safety
• Solar water heaters
End use management• Coal • Oil and Gas
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• Safety
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itor •Hydro (micro scale)
•Geothermal• Clean coal technologiesM
Cross cutting technologies and Energy Service Centres
Energy Technologies...gy g
• Consider the technology value chain well
• Core technology
– Fully developed energy solution packagey p gy p g
• Critical supply chain technologies
C iti l ti t h l i– Critical supporting technologies
– Positions the region / RSA as a leading support technology provider
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Energy Technologies...gy g
• Solar (CSP and PV): collector
efficiencies, HTF >>400oC, heat
exchanger, dry cooling,
different HT media, low
temperature HTF, thermaltemperature HTF, thermal
storage, resource assessment
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CSP Patent ActivityCSP Patent Activity
TIA IP Unit analysis, 29th August 2011
Energy Technologies...gy g
• Wind and Hydro:micro‐turbines,
increase plant availability and
reliability, wind resource
assessment service / expertise,
light weight turbine material,light weight turbine material,
advanced controls, drive train,
b tt i t t h l ibetter maintenance technologies
Dr. T. L. Mthombeni9Source: Harvard Law
Energy Technologies...gy g
• Geothermal:
– Develop technologies and combine with RSA underground
mining / drilling expertise, and export
– EGS taking over
• Ocean power technologies:
– Higher energy density
– Resource specific designs, combine RSA undersea mining
experience with tidal current turbines, exploit Eskom
assessed resource
Attracting many VC’s / PEs
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– Attracting many VC’s / PEs
– Capital intensive
– Resource assessment techniques
Energy Technologies...gy g
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Energy Technologies...gy g
• Fuel cells:
– Compact, light weight, long lasting, increased availability and
reliability
– Significant potential to tap into the HySA program to create
technology leadership
– Immediate markets: portable power, transport
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Energy Technologies...gy g
• Energy recovery, storage and efficient use
– Energy recovery: haul trucks exhaust heat recovery technologies
– Energy storage (thermal, mechanical, chemical and electrical): Low cost, high
energy density light weight energy storage technologies
– Improved energy consumption, energy consumption monitoring, and ensure
safe and efficient conversion / use of energy
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Energy Technologies...gy g
• Oil and gas technologies• Oil and gas technologies
– Focus more on the demand side, to drive efficiencies and minimize wastages,
safe consumption etc R8msafe consumption, etc, R8m
• Coal technologies
– Focus on improved combustion for residential sector – reduce health related
issues, R8m
– Peripheral technologies around coal fired plants
– Promote non‐energy applications and derivatives
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BioEnergy Technologies• First Generation Biofuels
– Conventional biofuels made from sugars, starches, vegetable oils
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– Bioenergy from biomass
• Established technologies
F d t k ti l i lt d t– Feedstock – conventional agriculture and waste
• Readily available and easy to operate
• Potential innovation
– Mobile processing, scale down, throughput rate increase, flexible feedstock processes
Second Generation Biofuels
– Non-conventional sources; cellulosic Ethanol, algal biofuels
– GM Feedstock and processing organsims
• Innovation potential
Feedstock innovation processing organism innovation industrial enzymes process development business
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– Feedstock innovation, processing organism innovation, industrial enzymes, process development, business
model innovation
BioEnergy Technologies…• Internal collaboration
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• Agro-Processing unit
• Industrial Biotechnology
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http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com
Funding Instrumentsg
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Assessment Examplep
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Technology InnovationExit strategy
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IP / Protection
TIA Investment Criteria• Strong alignment with the TIA mandate, Corporate and Sector Strategic objectives• Stage of technology development is beyond basic research (post-proof of concept)g gy p y (p p p )• Attractive commercial opportunity (market & industry)• Sustainable competitive advantage e.g. IP protection• Technology-based product/service/process offering must have
o strong potential for market capitalisationo strong value proposition – solution someone is prepared to pay for
• Business proof of concept i.e. viable and robust business case• Feasible business model i.e. all components in place to deliver on the value proposition• Strong Team: relevant business & technical expertise, experience, industry connectedness• Potential for high socio-economic impact – addresses national imperatives e.g. job creation• Strong potential to enhance industry competitiveness• Presence of an industry commercialisation partner where relevant• Co-Investment opportunity presented to allow risk-sharing
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• Short to medium time to market (~3 yrs)
Thank You!
energy@tia.org.za
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• Social innovationSocial innovation – Prof Sebitosi willing to contribute to setting a review criteriacriteria
– Prof Wikus introduced this subject
– TIA to take forward (to EXCo)– TIA to take forward (to EXCo)
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