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Source: Reuters.

South Africa's first offshore wind farm delayed as World Bank highlights potential

The arrangement currently supplies five Growthpoint buildings, including its newly refurbished 36 Hans Strijdom foreshore building, which underwent an environmentally innovative retrofit and now runs entirely on renewable energy. Image supplied.

Growthpoint and Etana Energy are wheeling clean energy to Cape Town

18 Sep 2026

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Phelan Green’s clean jet fuel project leads SA’s green hydrogen push

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Renewables and gas: the future of SA's energy supply

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Northern Cape Mulilo Sonnedix Prieska PV project inaugurated

Northern Cape Mulilo Sonnedix Prieska PV project inaugurated

31 Oct 2016

Developing agricultural and energy security in rural Africa

Developing agricultural and energy security in rural Africa

28 Oct 2016

Photo credits: Greenpeace/Shayne Robinson

Woollies tops the scoreboard in renewable commitment

28 Oct 2016

Source: Solar Capital

Solar costs at an all-time low, despite what Eskom claims

Nicci Botha 27 Oct 2016

Eskom's anti-green stance and other agendas

Eskom's anti-green stance and other agendas

Nicci Botha 25 Oct 2016

Ingula pumped storage scheme. Image: Eskom

Making sense of energy in a chaotic environment

Nicci Botha 25 Oct 2016

Renewables cheaper than coal - CSIR

Renewables cheaper than coal - CSIR

Lutho Mtongana 20 Oct 2016

Angola's hydropower revolution risks

Angola's hydropower revolution risks

19 Oct 2016

Panasonic, Tesla consider solar tie-up

Panasonic, Tesla consider solar tie-up

17 Oct 2016

Eskom challenged on power purchasing

Eskom challenged on power purchasing

17 Oct 2016

Coega deep-water port

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Jay Govender, Emma Dempster and Adriaan van der Me 14 Oct 2016

Kathu site in Northern Cape

Construction begins on 100MW Kathu solar project

13 Oct 2016

- The solar panels at George. Source: Facebook Yeni Safak.

SA basks in continent's first solar-powered airport

10 Oct 2016

Another of Building Energy's African projects: Kathu Solar Park. Source: Building Energy

New solar project to light up Uganda

7 Oct 2016

Putting waste to work - biogas to energy

Putting waste to work - biogas to energy

Francini Van Staden 7 Oct 2016

#SOGA16: DBSA's multi-billion rand investments in renewables

#SOGA16: DBSA's multi-billion rand investments in renewables

Nicci Botha 6 Oct 2016

Driving SA on solar power

Driving SA on solar power

6 Oct 2016

Cape Town a 2016 C40 Cities Awards finalist

Cape Town a 2016 C40 Cities Awards finalist

3 Oct 2016

Source: Shell

#makethefuture campaign highlights cleaner energy innovations

30 Sep 2016

MoU in place to build 10MW Liberian solar power station

MoU in place to build 10MW Liberian solar power station

27 Sep 2016

Ctrack to track 2016 Sasol Solar Challenge

Ctrack to track 2016 Sasol Solar Challenge

23 Sep 2016

GM vows to run on 100% renewable energy by 2050

GM vows to run on 100% renewable energy by 2050

16 Sep 2016

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All systems go at Noupoort Wind Farm

14 Sep 2016

Making wine takes a lot of energy. How South Africa's vintners can cut back

Making wine takes a lot of energy. How South Africa's vintners can cut back

Alan Brent 9 Sep 2016

#InnovationMonth: Sunshine in a box

#InnovationMonth: Sunshine in a box

8 Sep 2016

Wafa Mosque, Larache, Morocco. By Dans, CC BY-SA 3.0 –

COP22 host Morocco's mosques are going green

7 Sep 2016

Clay Nesler and Neil Cameron

Green buildings: conserving energy, preserving the environment and saving money

Clay Nesler and Neil Cameron 5 Sep 2016

Blinkered view on nuclear is bad for SA's economic future

Blinkered view on nuclear is bad for SA's economic future

UCT Graduate School of Business 2 Sep 2016

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa announces R205m line upgrade

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa announces R205m line upgrade

1 Sep 2016

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