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Fax The South African National Energy Research Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of CEF and focuses on research and development within the energy sector. Its primary roles include the development of an energy research and development agenda that is supportive of government plans of action. This includes the funding of strategic projects aligned to national targets. Kadri Nassiep was appointed as the CEO of Saneri in August 2006. He was previously the Chief Director, Energy Planning, at the Department of Minerals and Energy. Saneri will also be responsible for creating a knowledge repository and for knowledge management. It will help protect key skills in the energy-research sector and will assist with human capital development and transformation at tertiary institutions. In an address by Deputy Minister Derek Hanekom at the 2006 Science and Technology budget vote in the National Assembly, he said Saneri would be designed to generate new ideas and to develop practical guidelines for how South Africa can best take advantage of what nature offers us in the form of clean and renewable energy. The challenge, Mr Hanekom said, was to identify the energy options available to South Africa and to develop the technologies to fully exploit the country’s resources. Although a project of the Departments of Science and Technology and Minerals and Energy Affairs, Saneri is based at CEF. Research themesA draft South African National Energy Research and Development Strategy identified the following medium- to long-term energy-related research themes that would guide the management of Saneri to appropriately position the company in terms of national priorities:
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