Tag: Renewable Energy
Are rising energy costs the end for vertical farms?
WITH their ability to fully control growing environments through LEDs, sensors, and HVAC systems, vertical farms achieve great control over the quality and consistency...
Stellenbosch University set to become a leading research partner in green hydrogen initiatives
Stellenbosch University (SU) is set to become a leading research partner in initiatives to advance the use of green hydrogen as energy source.
The University...
Globeleq Consortium reaches legal close on South Africa solar plants
Globeleq, Africa's leading independent power company and the majority partner in the Ikamva Consortium (the Consortium), have reached legal close on six solar PV...
EWSETA and CSIR collaborate to grow much-needed skills in the renewable energy sector
The EWSETA (Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority) and the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) recently entered into a funding...
Opinion piece: Meeting the need for skills and labour to solve South Africa’s intensifying...
By Wayne Alcock, Managing Director at Quyn International Outsourcing
South Africa’s recent energy crisis escalation into Level 5 and 6 load shedding has highlighted the...
A Grinaker-LTA Civil Engineering project well worth its ‘salt’
First concentrated solar thermal power plant with molten salt central receiver
Grinaker-LTA’s role in the Redstone Concentrated Solar Thermal (CSP) power plant project in the...
The green side of building a renewable energy plant in Northern Cape
Engineers from renewables company Scatec have started work on a massive project in the Northern Cape, which forms part of the South African government’s...
Addressing the energy crisis: Yellow Door Energy brings solar expertise to South Africa
Leading Middle East solar developer enters South Africa after raising $400 million in equity for sustainable energy projects
Yellow Door Energy (YDE), the foremost sustainable...
Understanding alternative power sources
ACCORDING to Gregor Kuepper, Managing Director of SOLARWORLD Africa, there has been a marked uptake in renewable energy solutions following the recent bout of...
Eskom and SARETEC collaborate
ESKOM and the South African Renewable Energy Technology Centre (SARETEC) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to formalise the collaboration to develop renewable...
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