Zadok Olinga

Zadok Olinga

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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I provide consulting and advisory around sustainability and resource efficiency. Areas of…

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    Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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    City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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    Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

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    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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    South Africa

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    Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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    Johannesburg Area, South Africa

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    Pretoria Area, South Africa

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    Pretoria Area, South Africa

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    Pretoria Area, South Africa

Education

  • University of Pretoria Graphic

    University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

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    Activities and Societies: IEEE, AEE, MVCSA (CMVCSA)

    Thesis titled "A cost-effective approach to handle measurement and verification sampling and modelling uncertainties". A journal paper titled "A cost-effective approach to handle measurement and verification uncertainties of energy savings" has been published in the journal Energy, November 2017.

    Supervisor. Prof. X. Xia and Co-Supervisor. Dr. X. Ye

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    Activities and Societies: Joined IEEE student branch

    Energy Efficiency, Energy Auditing, Energy Management, Operations Management and Project Management

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    Final Year Project: Ultra-Wideband Communications: Literature Study and
    Modem Development

    Study Leader Professor. L. Linda

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    Focus Area: Microgrid Systems Optimisation

    Supervisor: Prof. X. Xia and Co-Supervisor: Dr. X. Ye

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • University of Pretoria Graphic

    Taught Maths to high school students in Mamelodi, South Africa as part of a JCP program

    University of Pretoria

    - 9 months

    Rewarding, especially once I saw one of the students from that programme at the University.

  • Visiting Lecturer

    Nka'Thuto EduPropeller

    - Present 6 years 3 months

    Education

    Assist with the evaluation of science projects and give lectures

Publications

  • TG 55-01 SANAS SPECIALIST TECHNICAL COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP GUIDELINE FOR TRACEABILITY IN MEASUREMENT AND VERIFICATION

    South African National Accreditation System (SANAS)

    The purpose of this document is to clarify how M&V bodies can perform measurements with the satisfaction of the traceability requirements outlined in section 6.2 of the Technical Requirements for The Application Of SANS/ISO/IEC 17020 (TR 81) [1]. SANAS traceability guidelines for inspection bodies are contained in TR25 [2], which is referred to by the TR 81 document......

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  • A cost-effective approach to handle measurement and verification uncertainties of energy savings

    Energy

    Measurement and verification (M&V) function has been adopted in many energy efficiency (EE) programmes to quantify energy savings, identify new energy efficiency opportunities, improve EE programme design, and reduce EE programme performance risks. Budgetary constraints in EE programmes necessitate careful planning to minimise M&V cost whilst maintaining M&V accuracy. For this purpose, this study presents an M&V cost minimisation model to handle M&V sampling and modelling uncertainties…

    Measurement and verification (M&V) function has been adopted in many energy efficiency (EE) programmes to quantify energy savings, identify new energy efficiency opportunities, improve EE programme design, and reduce EE programme performance risks. Budgetary constraints in EE programmes necessitate careful planning to minimise M&V cost whilst maintaining M&V accuracy. For this purpose, this study presents an M&V cost minimisation model to handle M&V sampling and modelling uncertainties cost-effectively. In the proposed model, the objective function is the total M&V project cost, which consists of M&V sampling cost, modelling cost, and overhead cost. The required M&V accuracy in terms of the 90/10 criterion is formulated as the constraints of this optimisation problem. Optimal solutions to the proposed model specify the required baseline model accuracy and sample sizes to achieve the desired M&V accuracy. The proposed model is applied to design an optimal M&V sampling and modelling plan for a traffic light retrofit project. Results show that the optimal M&V plan reduces the sampling cost by 42% and the total M&V cost by 11% against the solutions obtained by partial optimisation.

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  • Measurement and Verification Practices: Demystifying M&V through South African Case Studies

    South Africa

    Written by the most experienced measurement and verification (M&V) professionals in South Africa, this book collects 32 papers on various energy efficiency M&V projects: buildings, lighting systems, CFL mass rollout, compressed air, cooling auxiliaries, heat pumps, air conditioners, refrigeration systems, pumping systems, low flow shower head, residential load management, high and low pressure solar water heaters, awareness rising and behaviour changes, etc

    Other authors
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Courses

  • Analogue Electronics

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  • Automation

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  • Calculus

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  • Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk

    Coursera

  • Electromagnetism

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  • Energy Management

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  • Energy Optimization

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  • Engineering Economics

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  • Essentials of Corporate Finance

    Coursera

  • Ethics

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  • Introduction to Corporate Finance

    Coursera

  • Introduction to Research

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  • Microelectronics

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  • Operations Management

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  • Project Management

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  • Signals and Telecommunication

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  • Statistics

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  • Stochastic Communication

    310

  • VHDL (Specialization)

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Projects

  • Section 12L in the logistics and transportation space

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    I've been processing Section 12L tax incentive applications for some unique projects in the commercial aviation and logistics space related to fuel savings. Typically 1 litre of fuel saved is equivalent to 10kWh of energy saved. Therefore, fuel saving projects make sense for the Section 12L incentive.

  • Publications

    I have authored 1 paper and co-authored 2 others that appear in "measurement and verification practices"

    Other creators
    • Arnab Chatterjee
    • Nnamdi Anuwa

  • Energy Auditing

    Currently manage up to 50 energy efficiency auditing projects

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  • M&V Traceability Guideline

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    Drafted the M&V traceability guideline for South African M&V bodies.

  • Developing tax incentive and grants decision making tools

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    I developed incentive decision making tools for section 12L, CIP, and R&D tax incentives and grants. This required designing the user interface and programming the back-end.

Languages

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Afrikaans

    Limited working proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • South African Energy Efficiency Confederation (SAEEC)

    Board Member

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    Board member of the leading energy efficiency organisation in Africa

  • South African Energy Efficiency Confederation (SAEEC)

    Member

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    Full member of the South African Energy Efficiency Confederation, an organisation that champions energy efficiency in South Africa. Member Number: SAEnTF053

  • Measurement and Verification Council of South Africa (MVCSA)

    Full Member

    - Present

    The MVCSA is an independent Measurement and Verification (M&V) Body that governs Measurement and Verification (M&V) Professionals in order to protect the interests of all M&V stakeholders. M&V professionals are currently required to sign off section 12I, section 12L tax incentives. They are also responsible for quantifying energy savings for various purposes such as DOE projects and commercial lending contracts for energy efficiency projects. Therefore, membership of the MVCSA shows that the…

    The MVCSA is an independent Measurement and Verification (M&V) Body that governs Measurement and Verification (M&V) Professionals in order to protect the interests of all M&V stakeholders. M&V professionals are currently required to sign off section 12I, section 12L tax incentives. They are also responsible for quantifying energy savings for various purposes such as DOE projects and commercial lending contracts for energy efficiency projects. Therefore, membership of the MVCSA shows that the member has been fully vetted and their abilities as a M&V professional are accredited by a professional body.

  • GreenBDG

    Professional Member

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    As a professional member of the Green Building Design Group, I am involved in the following: 1. Contribution to the Building Efficiency Technical (BET) Guidelines; 2. Career Development opportunities through our accredited Going Green Education (GGE) programmes; 3. Knowledge sharing between academia, private and public sector participants through the annual Going Green Conferences (GGCs); 4. Accurate information on environmentally friendly and accredited building products through the Going…

    As a professional member of the Green Building Design Group, I am involved in the following: 1. Contribution to the Building Efficiency Technical (BET) Guidelines; 2. Career Development opportunities through our accredited Going Green Education (GGE) programmes; 3. Knowledge sharing between academia, private and public sector participants through the annual Going Green Conferences (GGCs); 4. Accurate information on environmentally friendly and accredited building products through the Going Green Products (GGP) directory; 5. Mentorship of Candidate Professionals and tertiary students through focused learning methods that encourages them to be innovative and responsive to the changing needs of the industry.

  • Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)

    member

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    I'm a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional registered with the AEE.

  • Certified Measurement and Verification Professional South Africa

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    I was one of the 1st members to join CMVPSA, which was an organisation of practising CMVP's and energy professionals in South Africa. This organisation has now changed its name to MVCSA (Measurement and Verification Council of South Africa). I am currently processing membership to the new organisation.

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