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Sustainable Water Augmentation Plan Cape Town, South Africa

Castalia helped the City of Cape Town develop a strategy that would ensure water supply in the event of another drought, using the framework of robust scenario planning. Cape Town residents were rationed to 50 liters a day when the City nearly ran out of water during a devastating drought. The City needed a long-term strategy.

June 19, 2019

Projects Energy C18051 Indonesia Transforming organizations and service delivery

Corporate Financial Strategy for National Power Company

Castalia developed a sustainable corporate financial plan for PLN, Indonesia’s national power utility, including a new revenue model, and recommended legislative changes. PLN needs to finance a US$180 billion expansion of the electricity system. It relies on subsidy to cover the gap between legislated tariffs and the cost of service. The size of the subsidy that would be required in the future led financial markets to question the fiscal sustainability of the arrangement.

June 19, 2019

Projects Water C05055 Indonesia Improving markets, regulation, and sector structure

Subsidy Program to Expand Water Supply in Jakarta, Indonesia

Castalia designed an incentive mechanism to enable the concessionaires serving Jakarta to profitably extend piped water service to poor unserved communities. Low-income communities in Jakarta relied on informal, expensive, and poor-quality water supply sources as they were not connected to the piped network.

June 19, 2019

News Germany Energy

Webinar: How Germany plans to phase out coal without losing all the coal jobs

A discussion about Germany’s commitment to competely decarbonize its national energy system and how that could affect jobs in the power plants and save emissions.

May 2, 2019

News Nigeria Energy

Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency Launches Minimum Subsidy Tender for Mini Grids

Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency issued an Invitation for Initial Selection for the first phase of a minimum subsidy tender.

April 24, 2019

News Water

World Bank publishes Water Utility Turnaround Framework

The World Bank publishes the Water Utility Turnaround Framework which was developed with a team from Castalia.

December 28, 2018

News United Arab Emirates Energy

Jonathan Walters interviews ACWA about the DEWA 700MW CSP Project

Jonathan Walters interviews Paddy Padmanthan about the DEWA 700MW CSP Project

August 28, 2018

News Investors and companies Energy

Webinar: What to do about stranded assets in conventional electricity generation

July 19, 2018

News Middle East and North Africa, South Africa Energy

Webinar: Organizing competitive tenders designed for tariff optimization

An in-depth discussion from experts about how to optimize your competitive tender to meet your specific objectives.

July 12, 2018

News Europe, North Africa Energy

Sustainable Electricity Trade Initiative Underway

Castalia is working with Artelys, EY, and Fraunhofer ISI on an initiative that seeks to promote renewable energy trade between Europe and North Africa. We are helping to establish a roadmap for sustainable electricity trade between France, Germany, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.

April 12, 2018