by Dianne Bayley | Sep 23, 2019 | Sustainability
Hospitals are reliant on continuous energy supply and cannot afford the potential disaster that could ensue if power fails within the infrastructure. This is why microgrid systems are globally being instituted within the healthcare industry to provide large amounts of...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 17, 2019 | Sustainability
At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, Caspar Herzberg, President, Middle East and Africa, Schneider Electric, supplier of solutions, energy management and process automation, was part of the Universal Energy Access panel on the first day of the...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 5, 2019 | Sustainability
Africa’s largest wind farm, a €620 million energy masterpiece boosting 365 turbines in northern Kenya, will help the East African nation stay on track to reach its target of 100% green energy by 2020. Known as the Lake Turkana Wind Power, the 40,000 acre wind farm...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 22, 2019 | Sustainability
The uptake of smart grids in South Africa has not reached its potential and Taru Madangombe, Vice President of Power Systems in Southern Africa for Schneider Electric, comments on the reasons and solutions to increasing South Africa’s implementation of smart grids....
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 12, 2019 | Sustainability
An optimal energy mix for Africa relies on a variety of generation technologies. In fact, writes Paul Grota, Director: Industrial, Power & Project Medupi, WSP, Power, Africa, a 2015 report from McKinsey estimated that if every country in Africa had to build to...
