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 2893 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 56964 Article rating: 3.7 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 54182 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
Neethling criticises Cape Town’s electricity pricing as Golden Arrow prepares to add another ... SuperUser Account / Tuesday, September 29, 2026 0 11 Article rating: No rating Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) is out on tender for another 40 to 60 electric buses to join the GABS fleet after April next year, says company engineer Gideon Neethling. Speaking on Monday at the Africa E-Mobility Week 2026 held in Stellenbosch, he said the new buses would add to the 120 BYD electric buses already in the Golden Arrow fleet. Read more
Solar considerations becoming more nuanced beyond kilowatt-hour savings SuperUser Account / Tuesday, September 29, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating As Eskom’s fixed charges make an increasing share of electricity bills, the economics of partial solar installations are becoming more nuanced, says renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction company RenEnergy Africa business development head Juandré Pitout. For South African farmers considering solar power, the question is no longer simply whether solar can reduce the amount of electricity bought from the grid but the added value of security of supply, clean energy and securing the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) for the farm over the next 20 years. Read more
CSIR playing key role in international Southern Ocean carbon data project SuperUser Account / Tuesday, September 29, 2026 0 14 Article rating: No rating The Southern Ocean-focused Constraining Carbon with Optimised Observing (COCO2) research project, which unites researchers in South Africa, Australia and the US, is now under way and will soon be delivering data to the South Africa-based Southern Ocean Carbon Climate Observatory (SOCCO). The institutions involved in the project are the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which hosts SOCCO, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the US ... Read more
Civil construction business sentiment remains weak SuperUser Account / Tuesday, September 29, 2026 0 13 Article rating: No rating The First National Bank (FNB)/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Civil Confidence Index decreased to 40 in the third quarter, from 43 in the second quarter, with 60% of respondents dissatisfied with prevailing business conditions. The index measuring activity growth declined to its worst level since 2022, underpinning the softer sentiment reading, FNB and the BER state. Read more
South Africa's foreign direct investment inflows pick up in the second quarter SuperUser Account / Tuesday, September 29, 2026 0 14 Article rating: No rating South Africa recorded foreign direct investment inflows of R49.8-billion in the second quarter, up from R20.3-billion in the previous quarter, the central bank said on Tuesday. The South African Reserve Bank said in its Quarterly Bulletin that the higher inflows were due to a local telecommunications company receiving debt funding from a non-resident parent company. It did not disclose which company because the transaction was not public. Read more