SAPVIA 17th Management Committee Meeting, 21 November 2013
SAPVIA’s sixth management committee meeting for 2013 takes place in Cape Town on Thursday, 21 November. The agenda of the meeting is available below for SAPVIA members to download. SAPVIA 17th Management Committee Meeting Agenda 21 November 2013 SAPVIA 17th Management Committee Meeting Minutes 21 Nove
First Solar unveils diesel-replacement strategy for African mines
Engineering News ONLINE 24 January 2014 Thin-film solar company First Solar is aggressively pursuing build operate and own (BOO) fuel-replacement projects in the global resources sector and is offering miners the prospect of displacing diesel through the use of increasingly cost-competitive solar energ
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Soitec and CEA sign a Five-Year R&D Partnership on Advanced Engineered Substrates and Materials
Grenoble, France, Dec. 18th, 2013 – Soitec (Euronext Paris), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and CEA have renewed their long-standing and fruitful partnership for the next five years. This new contract aims t
Solar Boom Boosts South African Salaries
Renewable Energy World.COM 12 December 2013 Ramone van Wyk’s wage more than quadrupled when he gave up working on sheep farms in South Africa’s arid Northern Cape province and got a job assembling a solar-thermal power plant for Abengoa SA. “I’ve never earned this kind of salary,” Van Wyk, 35, s
Northern Cape PV plants begin delivering 20 MW power to grid
Engineering News ONLINE 12 December 2013 Renewables developer and independent power producer BioTherm Energy’s Aries and Konkoonsies solar photovoltaic (PV) energy facilities, in the Northern Cape, have reached commercial operation, delivering a combined 20 MW of electricity to the national grid.
SAPVIA's 10th Networking Event: 10 December 2013
Sponsored by: SAPVIA held it’s 10th Networking Event on 10 December 2013 at the Protea Balalaika Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg. The first presentation of the afternoon was given by Dr Bernard Bekker from the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies, Stellenbosch University. Dr Bekker
Scatec Solar Inauguration of 75 MW PV Plant Kalkbult First Clean Energy Connects to Grid Kalkbult, South Africa, November 12th, 2013
Scatec Solar Inauguration of 75 MW PV Plant Kalkbult First Clean Energy Connects to Grid Kalkbult, South Africa, November 12th, 2013 South Africans are now beginning to use renewable energy from the national grid. A solar power plant built by global energy provider Scatec Solar and local partners has beco
SA’s renewables projects become one of world’s largest initiatives
Engineering News 15 November 2013 The phenomenal development of South Africa’s renewable energy industry has gained momentum quietly since President Jacob Zuma’s committment four years ago at the fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change t
Enel wins 513MW SA wind, PV
RECHARGE 31 October 2013 Italy’s Enel Green Power (EGP) has broken cover as the third big winner in South Africa’s latest renewable energy tender round, securing 314MW of PV and 199MW of wind contracts. EGP has been named as preferred bidder for four solar projects – the Aurora, Tom Burke, Paleishew