 Cable connections expert Lapp Group Southern Africa’s renewable energy division has completed a 30 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) installation at Coca-Cola South Africa’s new Valpré spring water plant in Heidelberg. The R1.6-million investment feeds into Coca-Cola’s internal grid,supplementing its power requirements with solar energy and significantly reducing its reliance on the national grid. In addition to saving energy and money on electricity costs,carbon dioxide savings will be achieved,resulting [...]  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) –South Africa is confident that a recently launched bidding process for renewable energy will lead to the addition of 3,725 megawatts (MW)of green energy to the national grid by 2016,despite previous delays,a senior government official said. Africa’s biggest economy has been struggling to meet fast-rising demand for electricity in the world’s top producer of platinum. A power supply crisis in 2008 shut mines down for days [...]  Power and automation technology group ABB on Monday announced that it would construct two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants for electricity utility Eskom,which would be completed by November. The pilot plants,each of one hectare,would be located on greenfield sites adjacent to the Lethabo and Kendal coal-fired power stations and would be the first of their kind built in the country. At the Kendal power station,in [...]  Cape Town –Environmental groups have slammed the government’s decision to build nuclear plants,saying it will not lead to energy security for South Africa. “As for nuclear energy as being our answer to whatever Eskom thinks it will be,that’s not entirely true. If Eskom is concerned with electricity security,energy security and safe electricity supply,nuclear is not going to be able to provide that,”Ferial Adams of Greenpeace Africa told [...]  A great degree of previous uncertainty over South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme has made many international players shaky about investing in the sector. However,this situation was resolved recently when the South African National Energy Regulator (NERSA) concurred with the Department of Energy’s (DoE’s) proposal to abandon the renewable energy feed-in tariff (REFIT). Our renewables sector is large and diversified and it has attracted many international players despite the now-defunct [...]  The City of Cape Town is planning several MyCiti bus services between Mitchell’s Plain,Khayelitsha and the city centre,mayor Patricia De Lille said on Thursday. “This express service will provide new avenues of opportunity for our people who have been let down by the lack of capacity in passenger rail services,” De Lille said in a speech to the Cape Town city council. “In addition,new services are also planned for transport corridors between [...] | Solar “Quotes”"I fully believe in safe, free,renewable energy. And we have one such energy station only 150 million kilometers from us. Let's use the sun's energy to heat our geysers,and conserve our limited resources". N.Russell “Today we dumped  another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. Tomorrow,we will dump a slightly larger amount. As a result,the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising.” Al Gore “The use of  solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”Ralph Nader |
