Just 165 km north of the windy city of Port Elizabeth, shiny new wind turbines are set to begin production at the Nojoli wind farm. The new wind farm was completed earlier this week and boasts 44 Vestas V100 2 MW wind turbine generators and will...
Must greater prosperity necessarily lead to a greater carbon footprint and increased greenhouse gas emissions? “In theory, no, but in practice this seems to be the case”, says researcher Max Koch from Lund University in Sweden. His study of 138...
Seeking to reduce its dependence on coal-fired power, South Africa is shifting its energy mix toward natural gas and renewables. The country currently consumes around 180bn standard cu feet (scf) of gas per year and remains heavily reliant on...
The Paris Agreement on climate change of December 2015 has placed Africa at the fulcrum of renewable energy deployment, but African countries have to take the responsibility for taking stock for a long-term development strategy, international...
