- Title
- Energy management as an element of a financial efficiency strategy : a case of the City Tshwane
- Creator
- Maubane, Lekgatla Donald
- Subject
- Industries -- Energy conservation -- South Africa -- City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSBE
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/49507
- Identifier
- vital:41727
- Description
- The costs of operating buildings and facilities which the City of Tshwane utilises for conducting business have substantially increased due to the cost of electricity more than quadrupling in the past decade in South Africa, worsening the already constrained budgets. Research has shown that implementation of successful and sustainable energy management of built environment assets is effective in reducing costs due to resulting reduction in energy consumption and is therefore fitting to include it as an element of a financial efficiency strategy in organisations. This study aims to investigate how the City of Tshwane utilises energy management of its built environment assets to support financial efficiency and to make recommendations where necessary. Building on existing literature on energy management, it asks: How does the City of Tshwane utilise energy management of its built environment assets to support financial efficiency? In this context, energy management is defined as the continuous process of managing behavioural, organisational and technical change to improve an organisation’s energy performance. An instrument suitable for collecting qualitative data was constructed based on theories found in the reviewed literature. Interview participants were purposively sampled from departments which have direct influence on the energy management chain in the city. Relevant documents provided by the city were also reviewed to support triangulation of data. An analysis of data demonstrated that the city utilises energy management of its built environment assets to support financial efficiency. The results also indicated that there are several deficiencies in the manner in which the city currently manages energy. On this basis, it is recommended that the city installs meters for all energy consuming built environment assets; abandons the practice of accounting for energy costs as part of overheads and adopt the practice of direct costs accounting; and implements measures to review relevant strategy documents at planned intervals in order to ensure their continuing suitability.
- Format
- xvi, 116 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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