While South Africa grapples with electricity challenges, the City of Johannesburg believes it has a solution that can help to keep the lights on. Pikitup, the City’s waste management company, says the five landfills it manages will by 2016 generate...
Lance Greyling, DA Shadow Minister of Energy, has called on Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Minister of Energy, to confirm on record that her department has plans and processes in place to allow for the smooth transition of the solar water heater rebate...
Water in the city of Windhoek’s major supply dams is declining daily, reaching worrying levels. The Windhoek Municipality notified the capital’s residents of the declining levels and reminded them about the serious implications of wasting water in...
The government of Kenya will invest Sh1.6 billion (approximately R200 million) Kenyan shillings in water and other projects to empower citizens in drought-prone and marginalised counties. In the Devolution ministry’s 2015 projections report,...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved a US$ 22.49 million loan to Zambia for the development of Lake Tanganyika. The project is part of the long-term vision for Zambia “Vision 2030” which intends to create “a...
A group of university of students and researchers spent their New Year’s testing and installing sanitation systems in India. A team of researchers led by Steven K. Dentel, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of...
The Northern Cape will soon be home to another Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant. This comes after the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded preferred bidder status for a 100MW CSP project to a consortium led by SolarReserve, a global developer of...
Power and Electricity World Africa expo has dominated the power and energy show space in Africa since 1997 and is Africa’s longest running and largest. And 2015 sees a massive event taking place on 24-25 March 2015 at the Sandton Convention...
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and in the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6 500 existing large dams on a highly precise map of the...
