Grid-scale battery storage could change the power situation in South Africa in many positive ways...
Total electricity generation in Africa stood at 870TWh in 2019, an increase of 2.9% from 846TWh in 2018. Africa's electricity generation capacity has grown at an average of 4.8% per annum since 2008...
2 days ago
Up to now, gas-fired generation projects has been under the radar in filling the country's electricity shortfall...
3 days ago
To ease the burden on South Africa's ailing power infrastructure, the Department of Energy made the decision to allow the country's major cities to buy electricity directly from independent power producers (IPPs). Cape Town is planning to take full advantage of the opportunity...
3 days ago
The latest solar plant in the North West has commenced operations, bringing the total number of large-scale projects constructed in this province to three in just one year...
26 Nov 2020
Blockchain is expected to play an essential role as African countries transition towards a distributed, digitised, and decentralised power system...
19 Nov 2020
Forward thinking investors and entrepreneurs in the African energy sector will deliver significant downstream benefits for the continent in the coming years...
Bhavtik Vallabhjee 18 Nov 2020
Kangnas Wind Farm is the first wind farm in the government's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) bid window four wind farm to achieve its commercial operations date (COD)...
17 Nov 2020
It is forecast that the world's installed electrical capacity needs to grow by 80% from 2018 to 2040 to fulfil our increasing need for electricity...
Aytek Yuksel, 16 Nov 2020
Project Blue Oval is a renewable energy programme for Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa's Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria...
13 Nov 2020
Fossil fuels accounts for 91.2% of South African generation capacity according to the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan...
Seydou Kane 11 Nov 2020
Agri SA has welcomed the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy's approval for the National Energy Regulator of South Africa to proceed and process licence applications for self-generation facilities of above 1MW...
10 Nov 2020
A research team exploring renewable energy use in off-grid informal settlements in South Africa has won the Chair's Prize in the 2020 Newton Prize Awards...
10 Nov 2020
While much has been said about how renewables will help to bolster our economy, it is not the silver bullet that will address all our developmental challenges.
9 Nov 2020
