Britain’s climate change chief urges SA to accelerate solar-harnessing efforts
Engineering News ONLINE UK special representative on climate change Sir David King believes South Africa is well placed to take advantage of strongly falling solar photovoltaic (PV) prices to deal cost effectively with its prevailing electricity shortfalls, while also lowering its carbon emissions. But
Is South Africa A Global Solar-Power Role Model?
AFK Insider 17 March 2014 The accolades just keep coming for South Africa’s renewable energy program despite the country’s powerful coal lobby. For three consecutive months in January, February and March, the largest global market research firms have each released reports saying South Africa is the p
SAPVIA's 11th Networking Event: 18 March 2014
Sponsored by: SAPVIA held the first event for 2014 – it’s 11th Networking Event on 18 March 2014 at The Pavilion Clocktower Conference Centre, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. The event was well attended with just over 80 delegates on the day. Standard Bank lead the day’s proceedings
SA and Namibia in need of energy boost
Engineering News – ONLINE 18 March 2014 The total energy capacity in Africa’s 54 member States is equal to that of Germany and Denmark alone, while 585-million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity. Putting these facts on the table, South Africa’s deputy director-general of
A lot more has to be done to promote economic regulation in SA – Martins
Engineering News – ONLINE 18 March 2014 Notwithstanding the work that government has done to promote economic regulation in South Africa, a lot more still has to be done, Energy Minister Dikobe Ben Martins said on Tuesday. Speaking at the second South African Economic Regulators Conference, coh
Eskom energy crisis far from over
EyeWitnessNews – EWN JOHANNESBURG – Although South Africa’s power grid has been stabilised, Eskom says the energy crisisis far from over. The power utility has once again pleaded with consumers to use electricity sparingly. Eskom says the next two years are expected to place strain on its ene
Eskom: Regulator not buying the excuses
Moneyweb 16 March 2014 “Don’t do maintenance at all cost” Throwing money at Eskom is no solution to the country’s power problems. Eskom should stop doing maintenance “at all costs”, improve the quality of maintenance and adhere to coal management protocols. That is the view of the
Regulator rejects Eskom ‘bungling’
The Citizen 17 March 2014 South Africa’s energy regulator is unimpressed with Eskom’s recent maintenance and funding wails, telling it bluntly it should stop futile maintenance at all cost, improve quality and adhere to agreed protocols. The National Energy Regulator (Nersa) has the final say about th
Eskom, Busa team up to ask for more money
FIN24 14 March 2014 Johannesburg – Eskom and Business Unity South Africa (Busa) plans to ask the government to try and find additional funding for Eskom, Die Burger reported on Friday. Eskom introduced load shedding last week, to prevent a collapse of the national power grid due to coal supplies f
Accelerated solar roll-out could help ease SA’s power constraints
Engineering News – ONLINE 14 March 2014 It is unacceptable that South Africa remains in the energy stranglehold of the current unreliable power supply. Last month the nation was again on “a knife edge” and facing an “emergency” as Eskomasked large users to cut consumption by a minimum o
