Long-term capacity expansion & investment planning

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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. 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.