Energy score
Clean-energy readiness, grid resilience, and solar or efficiency opportunity signals.
Energy in Johannesburg64/100
Energy
Energy Readiness in Johannesburg
Johannesburg's energy profile reflects an active national transition with rising renewable build-out and ongoing grid-resilience work. Energy in Johannesburg scores 64/100, placing it in the developing group of the indexed set.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 64/100
Energy readiness
64/100
Mid-tier baseline with active transition direction.
Primary transition lever
Renewables and grid
Renewable build-out and grid resilience are the main levers.
Climate stressor
Heat and storms
Rising heat and intense storms shape adaptation work.
Johannesburg energy data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Energy readiness | 64/100 | Solar resource is favorable nationally. |
| Primary transition lever | Renewables and grid | Distributed solar continues to expand. |
| Climate stressor | Heat and storms | Hailstorms drive some seasonal pressure. |
Energy city comparison
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| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg (this page) | 64/100 | Johannesburg's energy profile reflects an active national transition with rising renewable build-out and ongoing grid-resilience work. |
| 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. |
| Vancouver | 90/100 | Vancouver operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active building and transport electrification work. |
| Seattle | 90/100 | Seattle operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active building and transport electrification work. |
| 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. |
| Milan | 82/100 | Milan benefits from a strong national renewable build-out, district heating capacity, and active building-retrofit work supported by EU funds. |
| Lisbon | 82/100 | Lisbon benefits from strong national renewable build-out led by wind and solar, with active building-efficiency activity. |
| Abu Dhabi | 82/100 | Abu Dhabi benefits from exceptional solar resource and one of the world's largest utility-scale solar build-outs supporting clean-energy progress. |
| Sydney | 80/100 | Sydney is in active energy transition with strong rooftop solar, ongoing grid modernization, and rising heat-driven cooling demand. |
| Madrid | 80/100 | Madrid benefits from strong national renewable build-out and rising solar and efficiency activity in the building sector. |
| Los Angeles | 80/100 | Los Angeles benefits from strong solar resource, ambitious state-level transition policy, and active building and transport electrification. |
| 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. |
| Santiago | 78/100 | Santiago benefits from one of the strongest national solar build-outs globally, with active building and transport electrification work. |
| Shanghai | 78/100 | Shanghai benefits from rapid national renewable build-out, leading EV adoption, and active building-efficiency work. |
| Taipei | 78/100 | Taipei has solid grid reliability with rising renewable build-out and active building and transport electrification work. |
| Doha | 78/100 | Doha benefits from exceptional solar resource and ambitious clean-energy targets supporting renewable build-out and efficiency programs. |
| Melbourne | 78/100 | Melbourne benefits from rapid renewable build-out at the state level, with rising distributed-solar adoption and active building-efficiency work. |
| Brisbane | 78/100 | Brisbane benefits from rapid renewable build-out at the state level and one of the world's highest distributed-solar adoption rates. |
| Nairobi | 76/100 | Nairobi benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by geothermal and hydro generation, with growing distributed solar adoption. |
| Rome | 76/100 | Rome's energy profile reflects solid Mediterranean solar resource and ongoing national renewable build-out, with building retrofits a focus. |
| Chicago | 76/100 | Chicago has solid grid reliability with strong wind resource in the region and growing building-efficiency activity. |
| Prague | 74/100 | Prague's energy profile reflects ongoing transition work, with district heating capacity and rising renewable share at the national level. |
| Bangkok | 72/100 | Bangkok has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work in the commercial sector. |
| Bogotá | 72/100 | Bogotá benefits from a renewable-heavy national grid led by hydropower, with active EV-bus deployment and building-efficiency work. |
| Kuala Lumpur | 72/100 | Kuala Lumpur has solid grid reliability with growing solar 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. |
| Cape Town | 70/100 | Cape Town has solid renewable potential and active local transition work, balanced by national grid-supply variability. |
| Warsaw | 70/100 | Warsaw's energy profile reflects an active transition with district heating decarbonization and rising renewable share. |
| Buenos Aires | 70/100 | Buenos Aires has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out at the national level and active building-efficiency activity. |
| Lima | 70/100 | Lima has solid grid reliability with growing renewable build-out and active building-efficiency work. |
| Kigali | 70/100 | Kigali's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out and rising solar adoption supporting national targets. |
| Jakarta | 68/100 | Jakarta's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out at the national level and rising efficiency programs. |
| Manila | 66/100 | Manila's energy profile reflects an active transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption. |
| Mumbai | 66/100 | Mumbai's energy profile reflects an active national transition with growing renewable build-out and rising distributed-solar adoption. |
| Lagos | 60/100 | Lagos' energy profile reflects an active transition with rising distributed-solar adoption and ongoing grid-modernization work. |
Interpretation
Energy readiness scoring weighs grid context, transition strategy, and adaptation. South Africa's renewable acceleration supports the score. Across the indexed cities the energy average is 78/100, so Johannesburg is 14 points below the median. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. 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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