The EnerKey project is a South African – German collaboration, which aims to develop and implement innovative pathways and projects in urban energy supply and use in order to improve the sustainability in the region of Gauteng, South Africa. Gauteng is an urban agglomeration, where the three municipalities Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane with more than 10 mn inhabitants are located. EnerKey stands for the focus of the project on “Energy as a key element of sustainable transformation”.

Phase one of the project began in 2005. More information to the phase 1 (the pre-phase) can be found on the previous website. The main phase of the project began in June 2008.

The latest EnerKey Newsletter is available now.

EnerKey for COP 17 

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have now come to an end. Since the UNFCCC entered into force in 1995, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC have been meeting annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change. Further information on EnerKey's contribution to COP 17 you can find here.

In October 2011, several meetings of the EnerKey group took place in the city region of Gauteng. Here you find fuhther information on the meetings:

EnerKey Meetings October 2011

Further information on EnerKey is also provided as pdf documents in the download section.