Rehabilitating mines presents an opportunity for environmental restoration and economic empowerment in the energy transition
The birds are not agile flyers and are not able to change direction or twist and turn the way smaller ones can
A new report by the Global Wind Energy Council’s Africa Wind Power initiative examines the status of wind energy in Africa
A wind farm hailed as Africa’s largest renewable energy project and the solution to Lesotho’s hefty electricity costs has ground to a halt
Controversial Eastern Cape project poses high risks to threatened birds of prey
The private sector will offer solutions and money if there is policy certainty and effective guarantees
Former homeland residents won their restitution claims but delays in property transfers and compensation grants mean the land now lies derelict.
Difficulties in obtaining leases on communal land in the Eastern Cape are discouraging investors in renewable energy.
The world’s developing economies installed 60% of new wind energy capacity in 2014.
Green power is coming on stream, but it is not without quite a few teething problems.
The Development Bank of Southern Africa invests in the power of air and renewable energy.
The government has chosen 17 preferred clean bids and is studying further candidates to cut its coal reliance.
Critics claim private providers could have put the cheap money lent to the Cape project to much better use.
Strong government backing for renewable energy has given a much-needed boost to wind farms.
Siemens’s SA unit has won the contract to supply 46 wind turbines to power utility Eskom’s 100 megawatt Sere wind farm, says the German company.
Although renewable energy is being hampered across Africa by an uncertain regulatory regime, the sector has exploded in South Africa in recent years.
Only two major wind farms are near completion, but many are in the pipeline, according to the Southern African Alternative Energy Association.
Iran rises as a science power, Ghana rises as a scamming power and renewables get mixed results.
The Cape Cod resort area could in the next few years claim a new title of home to the United States’ first offshore wind farm.
