This discussion document presents South Africa’s Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) for the period 2015 to 2021. It contributes to the implementation of South Africa’s National Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) Strategy, which was published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in June 2021. The statistics that come from the PEFA for South Africa, 2015 to 2021 add to the richness of evidence available to decision-and policy-makers. It further contributes to the implementation of South Africa’s National NCA Strategy, that Stats SA published in June 2021.

•         ‘Natural resource inputs’ for the supply of energy in South Africa decreased from 7 111,7 Petajoule (PJ) in 2015 to 6 545,1 PJ in 2021, and ‘inputs of energy from renewable sources’ increased from 58,9 PJ in 2015 to 91,6 PJ in 2021.

•         ‘Coal’ was still the most dominant domestically produced energy product for South Africa from 2015 to 2021, even though it decreased between 2015 (6 023,2 PJ) and 2021 (5 620,0 PJ). ‘

•         For all industries in South Africa, the energy product ‘electricity’ was still the largest energy product directly used as part of the production process (and to produce goods and services that are not energy products) between 2015 and 2020, followed by ‘oil and oil products’ and ‘coal’.

•         ‘Manufacturing’ industry was the largest end user of all energy products, to produce goods and services that are not energy products, from 2015 (53,6% of all end-use of energy products by industry) to 2021 (52,9% of all end-use of energy products by industry).

•         The main energy product used by households for their own end-use from 2015 to 2021, was ‘biofuels’, followed by ‘oil and oil products’ and ‘electricity’.