WfE is rightly positioned to assist local authorities to relieve increasing pressure to reduce electricity demand, diversify and increase their own generation of electrical energy, to provide free basic services to indigent households and to provide sustainable energy systems to energy starved rural South Africa WfE provides opportunities for Small and Medium Enterprises, local cooperatives and sustainable local economic development frameworks where communities can benefit from the Local Economic Development aspects and job creation opportunities WfE will help develop and deploy schemes for the provision of energy for local consumption and the reduction of long lead times associated with the existing over stretched electrification grid at present