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Can South Africa Catch The North African Wind? - 2 months ago
While South Africa might not catch up with its Northern counterparts, it certainly has all the resources necessary to develop a significant wind energy industry. The wind potential is abundant, regulatory incentives are favourable and project developers, equipment suppliers and financiers have already expressed intent to get involved in the sector.
African CDM projects expected to multiply over next two years - 2 months ago
The African clean development mechanism (CDM) market was expected to grow from 34 projects in 2009, to well over 100 projects by 2015, growth consultancy Frost & Sullivan has found.
Government to approve Eskom unbundling - 2 months ago
A new electricity proposal which has independent transmission unbundled from Eskom at its heart will come into being in three months and be approved by cabinet by September
Bright prospects for a cleaner-energy era - 3 months ago
When considering the vast opportunities for renewable-energy roll-out in South Africa, the question that most in the new energy space are still pondering is: Where to from here? The short answer for those cause-driven activists may simply be: Onwards and upwards – and good for them.
Bay’s renewable energy projects set for roll-out - 3 months ago
AFTER several years of intense discussion and planning, the first of Nelson Mandela Bay’s R2-billion renewable energy projects is to be rolled out in a week’s time, the Central Energy Fund (CEF) announced yesterday. Five years after the municipality began investigating the viability of renewable energy, 500 solar-heated geysers will be installed, primarily at the homes of consenting municipal employees and industries related to the roll-out, from the middle of this month, at a cost of R10-million.
Two wind farms in the pipeline for Bay - 3 months ago
THE Windy City is going to be living up to its reputation. Two wind farms that will generate a combined 70MW of power are planned for Port Elizabeth – one in the Coega industrial development zone (IDZ) and the other on the outskirts of the city. They form part of a basket of renewable energy projects, worth nearly R2-billion, that the Central Energy Fund (CEF) is developing in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.
Renewable energy high on the agenda - 3 months ago
THE Cacadu District Municipal and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) have joined forces to promote the renewable energy sector in the Eastern Cape “to ensure that the region takes full advantage of the opportunities” in this sector. Nelson Mandela Bay is at the forefront of renewable energy and the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has announced a basket of R2-billion in investment opportunities in this field for the metro.
World Wind Energy Report 2009 - 4 months ago
A total wind capacity of 200’000 Megawatt will be exceeded within the year 2010. Based on accelerated development and further improved policies, The World Wind Energy Association increases its predictions and sees a global capacity of 1’900’000 Megawatt as possible by the year 2020. “The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy,” U.S. President Barack Obama
Exxaro to form clean-energy company - 6 months ago
JSE-listed coal-mining company Exxaro intends forming a clean-energy company in which it will raise funding for clean-energy projects with strategic partners, Exxaro Executive GM business growth Ernst Venter said on Thursday. Exxaro is part of the Tsitsikamma community wind farm consortium, which plans to generate 40 MW of wind power by 2013, from a R1-billion project in the Eastern Cape. That consortium includes the Tsitsikamma Development Trust, Watt Energy and the Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries and Danish power producer European Energy,
Answer Is Blowing In The Wind - 6 months ago
REAL PEOPLE DOING UNREAL THINGS As a child growing up in the Tsitsikamma, Eastern Cape, entrepreneur Mike Msizi thought he lived in the windiest place in SA. Now the majority shareholder in an alternative-energy company that plans to build a wind farm where he grew up, he has found out that what he thought as a boy is pretty much true.