by Dianne Bayley | Apr 5, 2017 | Features, Sustainability
Eskom’s announcement in July 2016 that it would not sign any independent power producers onto the South African power grid threw a booming renewables sector into disarray. JCRA, a leading financial risk consultancy, have today released a paper in partnership with the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 4, 2016 | Features
The Jury of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the UAE’s international awards for renewable energy and sustainability, has selected nine winners across its five categories today. The winners will be announced at the Prize awards ceremony on 16 January 2017 as part of Abu...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 6, 2016 | Sustainability
Lithium-ion battery technology has fundamentally changed the way alternative energy suppliers innovate solutions to overcome many of Africa’s business challenges. That is one of the points to emerge during the alternative energy track of the XON and NEC Summit...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 23, 2016 | Sustainability
South Africa is a country that is disproportionately affected by the consequences of global warming. Our coast has been identified as one of the regions in the world at highest risk of flooding and studies estimate that wildfires burn approximately 3 million hectares...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 7, 2016 | Sustainability
Leaders from Philips Lighting met with Energy Ministers attending the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) summit in San Francisco, where the company announced a commitment to sell more than two billion energy efficient LED light bulbs by 2020. Reaching this goal...