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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The Department of Energy (DoE) reports that 270 bidder applications have already been received for tender documentation related to the renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) programme, under which South Africa will seek to procure the first 3 725 MW of capacity by 2016. The documents were made available on August [...]
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ESKOM will later this month sign a €100m loan with French development agency Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) for its 100MW Sere wind project in the Western Cape, Eskom CE Brian Dames said yesterday.
The loan draws Eskom closer to the commencement of work at the project, which is [...]
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Leading companies in the photovoltaic industry should not take their positions for granted. No single company has been able to stay on top for a sustained period of time, according to PRTM’s 2011 Photovoltaic Sustainable Growth Index. Worse yet, as the ranking of the 25 largest publicly traded PV companies demonstrates, those that fall [...]
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