CAPE TOWN — All new commercial and residential buildings will have to receive at least 50% of their hot water requirements from renewable energy sources, such as solar water heaters and heat pumps, in terms of new regulations to be promulgated by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies in the [...]
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South Africa’s ‘green economy’, which is estimated to be worth R45-billion in the short term, offers significant potential for economic growth and job creation, Western Cape Finance, Economic Development and Tourism Minister Alan Winde said on Tuesday.
Winde was speaking at a GreenCape Initiative event hosted by Nedbank to [...]
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The 2007-2008 “rolling blackouts” left South Africans living in such a fear of power cuts. Even the subsequent rolling exuberant electricity price hikes did not meet with much grumbling. As an unwelcome reminder of those dark days, many parts of Johannesburg recently suffered power failures. Though of shot duration, the cuts [...]
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Energy efficiency has become increasingly important to both property owners and tenants on account of South Africa’s rising electricity tariffs and the medium-term shortage of electricity. The financial benefits, and the need to reduce carbon emissions, all add up to the need for a concerted effort to find solutions to improve [...]
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Cape Town. The commercial solar industry in South Africa has received a great boost through this month’s announcement by South African public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba that the African Development Bank had approved a loan of US$365 million to Eskom. It was made very clear in the announcement that Eskom had [...]
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The government will have to make key decisions “soon” if it is to meet its target of new nuclear power capacity by 2023, Eskom chief executive Brian Dames said on Tuesday.
Briefing journalists in Cape Town, he said South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity [...]
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