17 May 2012: Click here to view the 2012 budget vote speech by South Africa’s Minister of Energy, Ms Dipou Peters. Herewith an extract from the Minister’s speech: “Honourable members, We are making steady progress with the development of the Integrated Energy Plan; and by the end of the financial year will table the draft [...]
Read moreIndependent Online: Business Report 17 May 2012: Eskom’s funding plan to 2017 has been finalised and the electricity generation group will spend R201.6 billion over the period with R65 billion budgeted for this year, says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba. Read more…
Read more14 May 2012: Click here to view the media statement made by the Department of Energy regarding the date change for the Round Two preferred bidders announcement.
Read moreEngineering News Online 8 May 2012: The world’s solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200% and 400% over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European industry association said on Monday. Read more…
Read moreEngineering News Online 15 April 2012: The City of Cape Town has initiated a net-metering pilot project to allow domestic energy producers to feed electricity back into the grid, Dr Anthony Keen told an audience at a South African National Energy Association meeting in Cape Town on Tuesday. “I am pleased to be able to report [...]
Read moreRenewable Energy World Online 11 April 2012: London, UK PV Insider reveals the important steps South Africa has taken to meet the targets for renewables in the 20-year master energy plan, the IRP. Read more…
Read moreRenewable Energy World Online 12 April 2012: Economic growth, plunging PV prices, and an improving business ecosystem could spark the long-awaited take-off of off-grid renewables in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more…
Read moreEngineer Live 6 March 2012: Over the past few years, the use of solar energy in off-grid locations has increased rapidly. Photovoltaic solar energy presents a cost-effective alternative or complement to diesel generators. As a result, solar power and hybrid solutions provide an improved return on investment that is quick to set up and becoming increasingly [...]
Read moreMining Weekly Online 6 March 2012: South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) and National Treasury have issued a request for information (RFI) from potential developers of cogeneration facilities, as well as those coal-fired power stations, natural gas facilities and imported hydropower opportunities that could be introduced into the country’s stressed power system before March 2019. [...]
Read moreJanuary 2012 Dear {name} SAPVIA’s inaugural year saw the association grow from a small group of company interests to a significant industry mouthpiece. Credit should be given to the steering committee, (Kevin Robinson, Ryan Hammond, Davin Chown, Vincenzo Bellini, Mike Levington, Gerrit Kruyswijk and Warren Morse) for giving up their time and providing valuable input into the [...]
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