Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen
Transport company Gibela, 61% owned by Alstom, has been awarded an order to build 3Â 600 carriages in Prasa’s revamp.
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Alstom, a French engineering company with links to the SA nuclear industry, is in the firing line for ‘improper payments’ to an official in Zambia.
A company with links to the South African nuclear industry is in the firing line for ‘improper payments’.
Helen Zille has written to the Competition Commission over possible collusion between Hitachi and Alstom for a tender to build boilers for Eskom.
Seven French electricity experts visited South Africa last week to assist Eskom in dealing with the electricity crisis facing South Africa, the French embassy said on Monday. During his state visit to South Africa on February 28 and 29, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France would be sending engineers to work closely with their South African counterparts.
The South African Communist Party (SACP), a partner in the governing alliance, said on Sunday it would not tolerate threats by mining companies to cut jobs in the country’s politically-charged power crisis. ”If heads must roll we cannot allow it be the workers who take the knock,” it said in a statement after its central committee met over the weekend.
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/ 28 February 2008
France is giving a R15,5-billion (â,¬1,4-billion) coal-fired power station to South Africa as a gesture of friendship. The agreement was signed on Thursday between Buyelwa Sonjica, the Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, and Jean-Marie Bockel, the French Deputy Minister for North-South cooperation.
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/ 14 November 2007
Hitachi and Alstom have been awarded the R20-billion boiler and the R13-billion turbine contracts respectively for Eskom’s Medupi power station at Lephalale in the Limpopo Province. ”Medupi will be the biggest dry-cooled power station in the world,” said Brian Dames, managing director of Eskom’s Enterprises Division.