Monthly Newsletter – April 2020

Monthly Newsletter – March 2020

Getting off the Eskom grid a ‘no brainer’, says green activist

Business Day Live 12 March 2020 The climate crisis should drive any eco-conscious citizen to get off the power grid, and a house in Johannesburg could be the model for how to do that, Lisa Steyn reports in the second of a three-part series. Self-confessed eco-nut Paul Chinn thought Melville, in Johannesbu

Getting rid of the Eskom grid: what going solar entails

Business Day Live 10 March 2020 Using solar power to deal with load-shedding is not as easy or cheap as it might seem, as Lisa Steyn reports in the first of a three-part series. Load-shedding can drive people to madness and no-one knows it better than Scott Andrew, MD of Get Off Grid, a Joburg-based [&hel

Self-generation could help unlock economic recovery

Infrastructure News 02 April 2020 The economy’s descent into recession has added pressure on the government to throw a lifeline to businesses constrained by Eskom’s load shedding. Moody’s has forecast GDP growth of 0.7% in 2020, down from a previous forecast of 1.5% growth, partly due to the negativ

Self-generation could be key for economic recovery – organisations

Engineering News Online 02 April 2020 The economy’s recent descent into a recession has piled pressure on the government to throw a lifeline to businesses constrained by State-owned utility Eskom’s load-shedding; while the current onset of the Covid-19 pandemic is a further shock that the economy will

Mining industry explores self generation

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration has sent strong signals that the country is entering a ‘new era’ of energy generation since the beginning of the year – a shift that could potentially boost the position of renewable energy producers.  Read more here…

Now is not the time to backpedal

Financial Mail 16 April 2020 Financial-Mail_16-April-2020_Page-46_Now-is-not-the-time-to-backpedal-002.pdf