WesBank announces R60m carport solar-panel project
Engineering News ONLINE 28 October 2016 Vehicle and asset finance group WesBank and sister company First National Bank(FNB) have announced a R60-million project to replace the shade-net carports at its shared offices in Fairland, Johannesburg, with solar-panel carports. Read more here…
IPP programme ‘will continue’, as govt seeks confidence-building partnerships
Engineering News – ONLINE 26 October 2016 The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) “will continue and expand”, the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) asserts, describing it as “an example of the kind of partnerships needed for national developm
IEA upscales five-year renewables growth forecast after 2015 ‘turning point’
Engineering News ONLINE 25 October 2016 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has significantly increased its five-year growth forecast for renewable energy in light of what it describes as a “turning point” in 2015, when a record 153 GW of new renewables capacity was added globally. Read more here
Eskom’s nuclear vs renewables ‘propaganda’
Moneyweb 26 October 2016 Eskom CEO Brian Molefe is not running the country’s largest utility, he is running a propaganda campaign. That was the opinion of Chris Yelland from EE Publishers, who was speaking at the Life After Coal seminar held in Cape Town on Monday. Read more here…
No clarity on government impasse with Eskom on independent power
Business LIVE 20 October 2016 No clarity on the deadlock between government and Eskom on the independent power producer’s programme for renewable energy was given on Thursday by Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe. Read more here…
The New Development Bank: Its Role in Achieving BRICS Renewable Energy Targets
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Project Steering Committee and Expert Reference Group Meeting for the Wind and Solar PV Phase 2 SEA
The Project Steering Committee and Expert Reference Group Meeting for the Wind and Solar PV Phase 2 SEA took place on 23 August 2016 in Pretoria. The meeting notes can be viewed by clicking here
Cost of new power generators in South Africa Comparative analysis based on recent IPP announcements
Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz, Head of CSIR’s Energy Centre and Ruan Fourie, Energy Economist at the CSIR’s Energy Centre’s presentation on “Cost of new power generators in South Africa Comparative analysis based on recent IPP announcements” can be viewed/downloaded by clicking here
CSIR blasts away nuclear facade; science proves it’s an exercise in plunder
BizNews.com 17 October 2016 There can no longer even be lingering doubts about the true intention for the Zuma Administration’s obsession to commission nine Russian-made nuclear plants in South Africa. Numbers crunched by the State’s own scientific research institute, the CSIR, show that technologica
Tina Joemat-Pettersson to present IRP to the Cabinet next week
BDLive 10 October 2016 ENERGY Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Monday that she would present the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and an integrated energy plan to a Cabinet subcommittee on Wednesday and to the Cabinet next week. Wide consultations, including with Eskom, had been taken on both plans,
