SAPVIA 16th Management Committee Meeting, 18 September 2013
SAPVIA’s fifth management committee meeting for 2013 takes place in Cape Town on Wednesday the 18th of September. The agenda of the meeting is available below for SAPVIA members to download. SAPVIA 16th Management Committee Meeting Agenda 18 September 2013 SAPVIA 16th Management Committee Meeting Minu
SAPVIA 15th Management Committee Meeting, 27 August 2013
SAPVIA’s fourth management committee meeting for 2013 takes place in Cape Town on Tuesday the 27th of August. The agenda of the meeting is available below for SAPVIA members to download. SAPVIA 15th Management Committee Meeting Agenda 27 August 2013 SAPVIA 15th Management Committee Meeting Minutes 27
SAPVIA 14th Management Committee Meeting, 19 July 2013
SAPVIA’s third management committee meeting for 2013 takes place in Cape Town on Friday the 19th of July. The agenda of the meeting is available below for SAPVIA members to download. SAPVIA 14th Management Committee Meeting Agenda 19 July 2013 SAPVIA 14th Management Committee Meeting Minutes 19 July 2
SA ‘needs to find innovative ways to reduce cost of renewable energy sources’
BUSINESS DAY LIVE 27 September 2013 THE government needed to “pull out all the stops” to remove outstanding barriers and to look at innovative ways of reducing the financial cost of renewable energy sources, World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa Living Planet Unit head Saliem Fakir said on F
Carbon tax policy needs greater certainty, coherence to entice private sector buy-in
ENGINEERING NEWS – ONLINE 25 September 2013 The lack of long-term certainty associated with the proposed carbon tax policy and an absence of coordination between this prospective legislation and existing carbon-reduction mechanisms must be dealt with to secure policy buy-in from the private sector,
South Africa aims to finalise integrated energy plan in 2014
ENGINEERING NEWS – ONLINE 25 September 2013 The Department of Energy (DoE) has formally launched the much-anticipated public-consultation phase for the formulation of an Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) for South Africa, which it says should be published during the course of 2014. In July Cabinet endors
Eskom collaborating with world’s largest power providers
Engineering News ONLINE 25 September 2013 outh African power utility Eskom is collaborating with 15 of the world’s largest power providers to investigate fundamental issues of common interest to major energy companies and to develop joint action plans to ensure the improvement of power system securi
Six Myths About Renewable Energy, and Seven Answers
RENEWABLE ENERGY.WORLD.COM 26 September 2013 Keith Johnson, writing recently in the Wall Street Journal, does a commendably even-handed job laying out “Six Myths About Renewable Energy.” Citing the rapid progress renewables have made in recent years, he concludes that “Many of the debating points we
REIPPPP first-window project connected to grid
Engineering News – Online 16 September 2013 The first of three solar projects awarded to global solar energy provider Scatec Solar under theRenewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has come on line three months ahead of schedule. Scatec said on Monday that it
Expanding Grid Integration of Renewable Energy in South Africa Webinar – 12 September 2013
The integration of renewable generators into the electrical grid presents an important challenge for the electrical system operators and plant owners. The typical electrical grid was designed and built on the principle of a centralized energy system of massive power plants transmitting electricity across
