15 Apr
Green Hydrogen Economy free webinar series to boost local capacity and transparency
Green Hydrogen production is touted as an important future alternative fuel globally and according to Internal Renewable Energy Agency's World Energy Transitions Outlook, fully implemented, it could meet up to 12 percent of final energy consumption by 2050. It presents enormous economic opportunities for developing and emerging markets like South Africa where our bountiful supply...
15 Apr
Accounting Officers and building owners in a race against time to clock in on Energy Performance Certificates
Accounting Officers and building owners in South Africa have only three weeks left to obtain and appropriately display Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) at the entrances of their buildings in compliance with Notice 700 of 2020 under the National Energy Act, 1998 (Act no 34 of 2008), or face penalties. The South African National Energy Development...
15 Apr
Solar geysers beat the limescale blues in Limpopo
Families and members at Air force Base Makhado, Limpopo, are reaping the benefits of yet another energy efficiency project – this time, solar geysers designed to reduce the damage of limescale build up and the amount of electricity used to heat water in domestic housing. Piloted as one of the projects implemented through a five-year...
15 Apr
The road to cleaner fossil fuels is paved with energy symphony
South Africa’s reliance on fossil fuels is a given for now, but it is entirely possible to clean up our energy act while transitioning to a carbon-free future. The South African Cleaner Fossil Fuels Roadmap outlines the way. Cleaner fossil fuels sound like a contradiction in terms, especially when one drives through the coalfields of...
15 Apr
Solar can alleviate universities’ power woes
With industrial outputs declining and food production and security coming under threat, it could be easy to overlook the impact that load shedding has on universities and other institutions of higher learning. However, to do that would be to deny the ramifications of power interruptions have on our country’s current, and especially future, ability to...
15 Apr
PV is more than just technology
The transition from fossil fuel to clean energy is about more than just technology. People and their behavior, and government and its policies, are all at the heart of it, writes Professor Prathaban Moodley, General Manager of Applied Energy Research, Development and Innovation at the South African National Energy Development Institution (SANEDI). The worst day...