Energy score
Clean-energy readiness, grid resilience, and solar or efficiency opportunity signals.
Energy in Cape Town70/100
Energy
Energy Readiness in Cape Town
Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability. Energy in Cape Town scores 70/100, placing it in the solid group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 70/100
Energy readiness
70/100
Solid renewable resource with grid-reliability pressure.
Primary transition lever
Solar and resilience
Distributed solar and resilience programs are the main levers.
Climate stressor
Heat and drought
Sustained heat and drought cycles shape adaptation work.
Cape Town energy data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Energy readiness | 70/100 | Local programs offset some national grid issues. |
| Primary transition lever | Solar and resilience | Backup systems are widely adopted. |
| Climate stressor | Heat and drought | Drought-cycle planning is central. |
Energy city comparison
A crawlable comparison across every indexed city makes it easy to scan how this module changes between metros.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Town (this page) | 70/100 | Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability. |
| Copenhagen | 94/100 | Copenhagen has a mature energy-transition profile, with district energy experience and strong climate-adaptation planning. |
| Zurich | 92/100 | Zurich operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline, strong building-efficiency standards, and continuous district-energy investment. |
| Amsterdam | 89/100 | Amsterdam has a clear clean-energy direction with district heat, offshore wind context, and active building-efficiency policy. |
| Berlin | 88/100 | Berlin has strong clean-energy direction supported by national renewable-electricity progress and city-level efficiency programs. |
| Vienna | 87/100 | Vienna has strong clean-energy direction supported by national hydropower, mature district-heating, and active building retrofits. |
| Paris | 86/100 | Paris has strong energy-transition direction, with building retrofits and heat adaptation central to its readiness profile. |
| San Francisco | 86/100 | San Francisco operates with active climate policy, a comparatively low-carbon grid, and strong building-efficiency programs. |
| Auckland | 86/100 | Auckland operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower and geothermal generation, with active building-efficiency work. |
| Singapore | 85/100 | Singapore is energy-import dependent but progressing on renewables, regional power imports, and strong building efficiency. |
| Tokyo | 84/100 | Tokyo has strong engineering capacity and resilience discipline, but energy transition is constrained by dense demand and climate stress. |
| London | 84/100 | London has strong clean-energy direction with retrofit-led building strategy, balanced against legacy infrastructure complexity. |
| Barcelona | 84/100 | Barcelona benefits from a strong solar resource, active rooftop programs, and clear urban-energy direction tied to building efficiency. |
| New York | 82/100 | New York has serious clean-energy ambition and infrastructure complexity, with resilience shaped by coastal risk and dense demand. |
| Toronto | 82/100 | Toronto benefits from a low-carbon Ontario grid and ongoing building-efficiency efforts, with winter heat as a major energy lever. |
| Seoul | 82/100 | Seoul has strong engineering capacity and a clear energy-transition direction, with grid modernization and building efficiency as central levers. |
| Sydney | 80/100 | Sydney is in active energy transition with strong rooftop solar, ongoing grid modernization, and rising heat-driven cooling demand. |
| Hong Kong | 78/100 | Hong Kong has solid grid resilience and strong engineering capacity, with transition shaped by import dependence and cooling demand. |
| Dubai | 78/100 | Dubai has very strong solar resource and large-scale renewable projects, balanced by structural cooling demand and resource-import dynamics. |
| São Paulo | 78/100 | São Paulo benefits from a comparatively low-carbon national electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active work on building efficiency and distributed solar. |
| Nairobi | 76/100 | Nairobi benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by geothermal and hydro generation, with growing distributed solar adoption. |
| Bangkok | 72/100 | Bangkok has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work in the commercial sector. |
| Mexico City | 70/100 | Mexico City has solid grid reliability with growing renewable capacity at the national level and active work on building efficiency. |
Interpretation
Energy readiness scoring weighs renewable resource, grid reliability, and adaptation. Cape Town's solar resource is strong; grid reliability is the main lever. Across the indexed cities the energy average is 82/100, so Cape Town is 12 points below the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-05. Drawn from 3 institutional references.
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Sources
3 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.
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