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Joburg turns landfill gas into electricity

The City of Johannesburg has successfully implemented two landfill gas-to-energy projects. A total 19 042 Certified Emission Reductions (CER) have amassed and 3 157 656Nm3 of landfill gas has been destructed since May 2012. Eventually, 19MW of...
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Africans give governments low ratings on key services

Africans hold largely negative views about their governments’ performance on key services such as the delivery of water and maintaining sanitary conditions. This is according to anew report from Afrobarometer.The report entitled What People Want...
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Plans underway to build Africa’s biggest dam

Ethiopia has ambitious plans to build a $4.2 billion dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, 40 km from its borders with Sudan. The dam is expected to provide 6.000 megawatts of electricity, enough for its population plus some excess which it will...

Eskom’s electricity demand at manageable levels

Eskom says it’s off to a good start to the week, with generation plant performance better than last week and electricity demand at manageable levels. This as the utility’s industrial customers return to full production following power...

Renewable energy Q&A

In this video from the Renewable energy Business Day Dialogue the panel of experts takes questions from the floor about whether consumers can expect to pay more for electricity from the independent power producer programme, and whether we can use...
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Cape Town makes the switch

Thanks to its Residential Solar Water Heater Accreditation Programme, the City of Cape Town is able to speed up the roll-out of High Pressure Solar Water Heaters (HPSWH) to local residents. Through the programme, the city aims to encourage...

Promoting sustainable and compliant governance

The Chair of the Finance and Procurement Committee, Counsellor Fawzia Peer, officially welcomed more than 1700 delegates to the 84th Institute of Municipal Financial Officers (IMFO) Annual Conference. Hosted this year by eThekwini Municipality,...