GAMAGARA MUNICIPALITY DRAWS A COLLECTIVE APPROACH FROM SOCIAL PARTNERS
Co-ordinated efforts, led by Gamagara Local Municipality stakeholders, has resulted in a collective social impact that has provided disaster relief to 864 households, 43 local clinics and 2 hospitals. Various social investment stakeholders together with the Gamagara Local Municipality Mayor, Edwin Hantise
Renewable Energy Industry Comments on Framework for Sectors
The Industry Associations have worked tirelessly over the weekend to submit our motivation to include Renewable Energy in the Level 4 restrictions of the lockdown. SAPVIA engaged members over the weekend and worked with SAWEA, SAESA and other Industry Associations to ensure that a compelling motivation wa
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