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Namibia exports power to SA

Namibian power utility NamPower is currently exporting electricity to its South African counterpart Eskom, which is struggling to meet demand, an official said. “We are currently exporting up to 200MW of electricity to South Africa,”...

SA energy crisis under the spotlight

As Eskom missed another deadline to bring its Medupi power station online, and its financial woes have led to fears over South Africa’s electricity supply in 2015, world energy leaders will congregate in Johannesburg in a month to discuss the...

Global engineering group adds to its green portfolio

Century City will soon be home to another green building, when a well known global engineering company starts construction on its new offices. When the Aurecon’s Century City office building in Cape Town was built in 2011, it was the first building...

Building houses from plastic bottles

Discarded plastic bottles from bottled water and other beverages have become an eye sore in many African countries and efforts to recycle them barely scratch the surface, however there may be another solution capable of solving two African problems...