Cape Town City Council is responsible for the supply of electricity to the city area. To achieve this, the council owns and operates thermal and pumped-storage power stations and extensive HV transmission and LV distribution networks. Power is also purchased from the national supply authority. Prior to the introduction of the control system described in this paper limited supervisory control and data acquisition facilities existed to provide some degree of remote control for the network. In addition to duties associated with supervision of both the HV and LV networks, the control centre operators were also responsible for energy management involving generator scheduling and control, and load-shedding when required. To assist the operators in their extensive and onereous duties a new computer-based control centre has been developed and was commissioned in 1984. Because of the unusual mix of power sources special software had to be developed for energy management purposes. Descriptions are given of the functional and practical aspects of the control centre, and of associated hardware and software facilities and also some commissioning experiences.