C. Auret, B. Bekker, “A method for assessing the impact of historical weather dataset size when doing long-term electricity system planning,” in Energy, 2025

T. Vivier, C. Auret and B. Bekker, “Seasonal Energy Storage to Support South Africa’s Energy Transition,” 2025 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), Villasimius, Italy, 2025, pp. 442-448, doi: 10.1109/ICCEP65222.2025.11143783.

C. Auret, B. Bekker, “Stationary embedded storage can no longer be omitted from electricity system models in supply-constrained systems,” in Energy Strategy Reviews, 2025

L. Jansen, E. Duque Pérez, J. Bard, B. Häckner, S. Morison, B. Bekker, F. Muenk, and Z. Hussain, “Power-to-X Allocation Study for South Africa: Power-to-X to Enable and Advance the Long-Term Transformation of South Africa’s Energy System,” International PtX Hub, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Jun. 2025.

A. Marquard, G. Cunliffe, B. McCall, J. Tatham, T. Caetano, A. Hughes, B. Merven, H. von Blottnitz, J. Masenda, S. de Kock and N. McDaid, “Net Zero CO2 Emission Pathways for South Africa,” in Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) Technical Reports, 2025.

DBSA, PCC, NPC & NT-SA. 2025. South Africa’s Energy Sector Investment Requirements to Achieve Energy Security and Net-Zero by 2050. Midrand, South Africa

C. Auret, B. Bekker, “Impact of Partial Unplanned Outage Modeling Assumptions on Long-Term Capacity Planning Validation,” in IEEE Access, 2024

S. Lakhoo, C. Auret, B. Bekker, “Determining the Likely Tracking Choices for Utility Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants,” in International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2024

R. Beres, N. Mararakanye, C. Auret, B. Bekker, M. Van der Broek, “Analysing the prospects of grid-connected green hydrogen production in predominantly fossil-based countries – A case study of South Africa,” in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024

C. Auret, B. Bekker, “ Quantifying the Risk When Using Single Year PV Data in South African Electricity System Models,” in 2023 58th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Dublin, Ireland

M. Swilling. E. Johnson. L. Depla, J. Hoffman and J. Huisman, “Better Finance, Better Grid,” 2023

M.K. Mupazviriho, A. Dalton, B. Bekker, “ The Effect of Climate Change on Variable Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Trend Analysis,” in 2022 57th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Istanbul, Turkey

Macmillan-Scott, E., Stodulka, K., Meldrum, M., Kennedy, M., Swilling, M., Callaghan, N., Mohlakoana, N. & Johnson, E. 2022. Making Climate Capital work: Unlocking $8.5bn for South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Stellenbosch.

C. Van Dongen, B. Bekker, A. Dalton, “Valuation of pumped storage in capacity expansion planning – a South African case study” in Energies, 2021

C. van Dongen and B. Bekker, “Potential for New Pumped Storage Schemes in South Africa,” in 6th IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON), Gammarth, Tunisia, September 2020.

C. Auret, B. Bekker and P. Gauché, “Validation methods for capacity expansion planning models: a review,” in 6th Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC 2019), East London, South Africa, SASEC 2019: 1-5, 2019.