Zothe is the driving force behind several innovative renewable energy efficiency projects inin Lady Frere, Kavali Village, in the Eastern Cape.
International companies have begun salivating at the local opportunities green energy holds for them in South Africa.
Any infrastructure plans that are based on oil dependency should be scrapped and replaced with sustainable alternatives.
Numsa has said that its energy conference was aimed at preventing the renewable energy sector from being dominated by a capitalist system.
Bids will bring 3 750 megawatts of alternative energy on to the grid within the next three years at a total cost of R120-billion.
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/ 17 January 2012
Experts are warning that a global economic slowdown and the eurozone debt crisis have curbed government investment in renewable energy.
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/ 9 December 2011
South Africa will launch an umbrella body to act as a single voice championing the importance and relevance of renewable energy in the country.
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/ 7 December 2011
Nedbank has provided the financial backing for about 40% of the energy represented by bids for SA’s first renewable energy independent power producer.
President Jacob Zuma has launched a flagship solar power plant in Hazelmere, KwaZulu-Natal, which is set to provide job opportunities.
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/ 16 November 2011
South Africa needs a more visionary rollout of renewable energy if it hopes to combat climate change.
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/ 14 November 2011
An energy department official says 53 bids have been received from independent electricity producers for the construction of renewable energy sources.
Eskom has been given a R980 840 000 loan that it says will go towards financing the 100MW Sere Wind Project in the Western Cape.
Government finally took the wraps off its new-look green policy last week when it officially launched the Independent Power Producers (IPP) programme.
Eskom has responded to Greenpeace’s coal-dumping protest at Megawatt Park, insisting it was vigorously implementing renewable energy strategies.
Greenpeace’s <i>Kumi Naidoo</i> writes from a prison in Greenland about the effect deep water drilling in the Arctic could have on climate change.
Eskom has been granted a $365-million loan by the African Development Bank for its wind and solar power projects.
Producers want to sell clean power, Eskom wants to buy it, but first the regulators need to do their job.
A study says investing in renewable energy will keep damaging emissions in check, writes <b>Fiona Harvey</b>.
Residents of scenic fishing village Paternoster on the Cape West Coast are in high dudgeon over plans to erect hundreds of wind turbines.
The state’s plan to green the economy is going to test the government’s ability to coordinate departments and agencies.
The Paris sewers — whose murky labyrinths have been reviled and romanticised through history — are at the centre of a renewable energy experiment.
<i>M&G</i> readers weigh in on UJ’s ties with BGU, renewable energy, Japan’s nuclear crisis and more.
Renewable energy gets a greater share and nuclear gets slightly less, but still there are risks in the system.
Developing countries — and the environment — could benefit greatly from new technology that makes fuel and electricity from waste.
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/ 3 February 2011
It will take trillions of dollars but the world can get all the energy it needs from wind, water, solar and geothermal sources by 2050, says the WWF.
Health and running-cost benefits over 10 years would earn Gauteng a whopping R5,9-billion. So why are there no takers?
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/ 6 December 2010
The hearings into the Integrated Resource Plan come at a time when there is growing concern about the country’s energy future.
IRP2010 is gearing up to supply too much power, as it ignores the effect of efficiency measures.
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/ 2 December 2010
South Africa has got to consider renewable energy, or risk being left behind. This was the message from a seminar held by Greenpeace Africa.
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/ 19 November 2010
South Africa given a $20-billion credit line for energy development, but there’s a quid pro quo.
The IRP2010 is no more than a sop to environmental and political pressures while nuclear is the star.
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/ 20 October 2010
Cheaper money and lower cost have made green energy even more attractive to producers.