SMME Support as of July 2020 SMME Support as of July 2020 What the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 21, 2020 0 4566 Article rating: 5.0 The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information on what the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa. Read more
AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED SuperUser Account / Monday, April 13, 2015 0 58326 Article rating: 5.0 FOLLOWING significant growth in the renewable energy business, AfriCoast Engineers SA has developed a sister company to exapnd its vision. Read more
AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY SuperUser Account / Thursday, February 12, 2015 0 55326 Article rating: 4.0 Renewable energy engineering firm AfiCoast Engineers SA has announced that a new company, AfriCoast Energy, will now be responsible for all future renewable energy projects - particulary wind and solar - while it will also play a key role in guiding AfriCoast Engineers' current basket of renewable energy projects. Read more
Opinion: Pollution in the Vaal Triangle – progress, but more must be done SuperUser Account / Thursday, May 2, 2024 0 0 Article rating: No rating In this article, ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) CEO Kobus Verster writes that industry across the Vaal Triangle, together with responsible corporate citizens in the steel industry, must constantly improve their overall environmental performance above and beyond air quality indicators. Read more
Rossouw to step down as Sasol CFO in October SuperUser Account / Thursday, May 2, 2024 0 0 Article rating: No rating Petrochemicals company Sasol has announced that CFO and executive director Hanré Rossouw will step down from his position, effective October 31. Sasol has started the process to appoint a successor. Read more
Motsepe-backed GoSolr plans $537m South Africa expansion SuperUser Account / Thursday, May 2, 2024 0 0 Article rating: No rating GoSolr, a company backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe and the continent’s biggest bank, plans to spend R10 billion to roll out a model of renting solar panels and batteries to homes in the nation plagued by blackouts. The two-and-a-half-year-old company seeks to install about 500 megawatts of solar-generation capacity in four years. That’s up from its current 70 megawatts, said Andrew Middleton, GoSolr’s chief executive officer. It has attracted investment and financing from Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital Investments and Standard Bank Group. Read more
Decarbonisation investment while paying carbon tax is impossible, says AMSA's Verster SuperUser Account / Tuesday, April 30, 2024 0 8 Article rating: No rating Paying billions of rands in carbon tax while simultaneously investing in decarbonisation efforts is impossible, steel maker ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) CEO Kobus Verster has said. In South Africa, the carbon price is currently fixed at R308/t of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) Scope 1 emissions by 2026 and will increase to R462/t by 2030, while tax-free emissions related to performance, trade exposure, and emission categorisation are afforded to all industry. Read more
Outa asks govt to clarify roles of Ministers in ERA Bill, minimise Nersa’s price-setting power SuperUser Account / Tuesday, April 30, 2024 0 7 Article rating: No rating While the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) supports the broad intent of the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill, as it seeks to improve energy security in the country, it says more must be done to move away from regulated pricing to more market-oriented pricing with greater levels of competition and efficiency. Outa considers the ERA Bill to be extremely important legislation for putting in place the necessary legal, regulatory, planning and pricing frameworks, rules and procedures to implement government policy for a restructured electricity supply energy. Read more