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Eskoms Air Quality Offset (AQO) Project aimed at reducing emissions in households near its power stations is advancing in Mpumalanga. More than 91% of targeted homes in Ezamokuhle have been upgraded. The next phases of the project will go to more communities across Mpumalanga including

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank Group Guarantees, and the International Solar Alliance (ISA) have announced the creation of the MIGA-ISA Solar Facility a multi-donor trust fund designed to boost global solar energy adoption. The trust fund wil

RS Components is aiming to expand its range of energy-efficient products from 30000 to over 100000 within the next five years. The ambitious goal was announced by Erick Wessels , Sales Director at RS Components, during Electra Mining Africa 2024 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre

Integrated hydrogen energy system The study introduces a solar biomass gasification-based hydrogen system that integrates methanol hydrogen storage with solar thermochemical dehydrogenation. This approach is designed to achieve efficient hydrogen production and utilisation tail

The recent pledge of R628 million by the European Union (EU) to support South Africas green hydrogen industry recognises the countrys potential for green hydrogen production but it is not enough to get the industry off the ground, according to Bruce Douglas Young , Senior Lecturer at th

Eskom has joined the rest of South Africa and the global community mourning the passing of former Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan . In a statement, the power utility said Gordhan was a pivotal figure in Eskoms transformation, driving critical reforms that set the

Eskom and the Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality (MAP) are collaborating in an eight-year agreement to restore the municipalitys electricity supply sustainability by improving revenue collection, settling debt and upgrading infrastructure. The project, with the possibility of extending to 15

A global organisation backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to help South Africa attract much-needed investment in its municipal power grids. We will shortly announce a coalition of partners who are going to support us in the municipal space, said Ziyad Cassim , GEAPPs Sout

GreenSun, a renewable energy engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company, has launched what it calls the first residential power purchase agreement (PPA) in South Africa. EnergyEase is designed to optimise energy savings for homeowners through an energy-as-a-service model,