Loadshedding remains a thorn in the side of all South Africans and the country’s government, and it’s no surprise that more people are considering the move to solar as a renewable alternative energy source. However, the market is fraught with...
Home owners Leigh De Decker and Mark Beloch recently signed a new small-scale embedded electricity generation (SSEG) contract with the City of Cape Town. The contract will allow them to feed extra electricity generated by their photovoltaic (PV)...
Fracking in the US has led to a greater reduction in carbon emissions than all the wind turbines and solar panels across the entire globe put together. This is the stark fact presented at a meeting at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg recently....
Gauteng plans to spend R11 billion installing solar panels on all its state-owned buildings. This is according to Gauteng Infrastructure Development MEC Qedani Mahlangu. Mahlangu says there are approximately 8-million m2 of roof-top space available...
Stellenbosch University’s iShack project, which aims for “improved” shacks, allowed for incremental upgrading of informal settlements, enabling residents to assess services such as electricity and sanitation, the university’s Mark...
