First LED-Walkway webinar on energy efficient lighting research

The South African - German Energy Partnership and the South African - German Energy Programme, both implemented by GIZ, supported their partner ‘The Innovation Hub (TIH)’ to host a webinar with the focus on international experience on energy efficient lighting research and demonstration.

The webinar was part of a series of webinars born out of a demonstration project on energy efficient streetlight implemented at TIH in Pretoria with the aim to demonstrate the latest lighting technologies, showcase products for research development and raise awareness amongst municipalities on energy efficient streetlighting technologies. The demonstration project is funded by the Swiss Government as part of the bilateral agreement with Republic of South Africa through its entity Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) under an Energy Efficient Street Lighting Retrofit Project (EEStLRP) implemented by GIZ with the DMRE.

To promote the demonstration site and raise awareness on energy efficient lighting, stakeholders agreed to host a series of webinars to share lessons learned, exchange on good international good practice and to promote dialogue between the various stakeholders in the energy efficient lighting sector.

The webinar comprised of speakers from SECO as the co-funder of the demonstration project and their interest in energy efficient lighting; dena (German Energy Agency) sharing research perspectives from Germany; Technical University of Berlin sharing research priorities, trends and focus; Tshwane University of Technology sharing an energy efficient lighting decision-making tool/application; TIH presenting the demonstration project, its future perspective, research and international collaboration; as well as SANEDI presenting the project implementation on behalf of the DMRE.