Press Releases
Suzlon Signs 200-Turbine Deal With SA Wind Developer - 8 months ago
Global wind-energy equipment supplier Suzlon Energy reported on Wednesday that it had signed a contract with African Clean Energy Developments (ACED) for an initial 76 turbines for the Cookhouse project, which is being proposed for South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. An engineering, procurement and construction contract, as well as an option for an additional 124 turbines for Cookhouse, has also been concluded, but no contract value is being provided.
Renewable Energy Developers Say New Energy Tariffs Could Halt Investments - 9 months ago
Wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas project developers speaking at the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) public hearings into the renewable energy feed-in tariff (Refit) review, were in agreement that the revised tariffs were unsuitable to stimulate a renewable energy development in South Africa.
Renewable Energy: Kenya Shows The Way For Africa! - 9 months ago
There are some 700 million people in Africa without access to electricity. As the continent modernizes, those people will need power. But could African power be a perfect place for leapfrog technology–when a developing society goes straight to the most modern technology without going through the iterations seen in the developed world? A new windfarm in Kenya might indicate yes.
Global Clean Energy Investment to Rise in 2011 - 11 months ago
Brazil, China and India are expected to fuel global investments in clean energy in 2011 that are expected to reach $240 billion, the head of a United Nation's green economy initiative said on Wednesday
Bay’s renewable energy projects set for roll-out - about 1 year 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 - about 1 year 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 - about 1 year 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.
Exxaro to form clean-energy company - about 1 year 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 - about 1 year 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.
Tsitsikamma community to benefit from wind turbine project - over 2 years ago
Green energy is the new frontier, and with electricity under pressure, the project is part of the community's solution. Phase one is a 40-megawatt commercial wind farm, estimated at R1 billion. The turbines will generate more than 20 megawatts of electricity per hour. Currently, the farming community has no electricity and few jobs.