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Life in South Africa seems to be getting more expensive with every passing day. One thing that households can influence, fortunately, is their electricity bills. And no, you don’t need to start with solar panels or gas stoves. Simply changing your lighting will make a big difference. “Energy efficiency is what it’s all about,” says...

During October and November this year, more than 2 000 grade 8 to grade 11 learners from 17 schools in the Northern, Eastern, and Western Cape became much better acquainted with renewable energy as a climate change mitigator, thanks to the EnergyDRIVE project. South Africa’s large renewable energy facilities are in fairly remote and rural...

Energy. Electricity. Power. Regardless of the term they use, how to keep the lights on and the economy going is the question uppermost in many South Africans’ minds, from policy and decision makers to ordinary citizens. On 21 and 22 November this year, the South African National Energy Institute (SANEDI) will endeavor to answer questions...

Coal still has a place in our energy mix In a world that’s being battered by extreme weather occurrences due to climate change, it seems like heresy to claim that coal still has a place. The fact is that it does, but on condition we can clean up its act. South Africa’s load shedding crisis...

Paint the energy efficiency numbers Paint that cools down buildings and saves electricity sounds either too good to be true or like science fiction. It is, in fact, neither. The science has been proven, as has practical application and now a largescale rollout is transforming military bases in one of the hottest provinces of South...

Powering Progress: South Africa-Japan Partnership Set to Spark R300 Billion GreenHydrogen Revolution A partnership that could inject R300 billion into the local green-hydrogen economy over the next three to five years is rapidly taking shape between South Africa and Japan – and that is only part of the good news. The inability to beneficiate its...