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 2917 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 56981 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 54224 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
New determination opens way for public procurement of large-scale battery storage and gas-to-power SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says 4 600 MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) and 5 000 MW of gas-to-power (GtP) have been prioritised in a new Ministerial determination that opens the way for new public-procurement bidding rounds. He has also confirmed that the procurement processes facilitated by the determination will be implemented by the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO) and be open to all market participants, including Eskom. Read more
African wind power sector has crossed a threshold SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 0 4 Article rating: No rating The continent of Africa has huge technical onshore wind power potential of 58 400 GW, highlighted Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) director Africa Windpower Juliana Kainga, in her keynote address on the second day of the Windaba 2026 conference, at the Cape Town International Conference Centre, on Wednesday. As of the end of last year, the total installed African wind power capacity is 11.1 GW, which comes to a mere 0.02% of the total potential. Nevertheless, that 11.1 GW figure signalled that the continent had crossed an industrial threshold, she affirmed. Africa's first 1 GW wind farm was under construction (in, although she did not mention it, South Africa's Western Cape province). There was now a pipeline of 259 planned wind power projects spread across Africa, with a total capacity of 186 GW. Read more
Commission seeks overturn of Premier, RFG merger approval over proposed Tulbagh cannery closure SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating The Competition Commission on October 6 filed an application with the Competition Tribunal under Section 16(3) of the Competition Act seeking the revocation of the tribunal’s decision to conditionally approve the merger between Premier Group and RFG Holdings. The tribunal approved the large merger on March 6, subject to conditions that included employment protections. Read more
SA Canegrowers calls on Godongwana to scrap sugar tax in MTBPS SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating Industry organisation the South African Canegrowers' Association (SA Canegrowers) has called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to scrap the Health Promotion Levy (HPL), or sugar tax, during the upcoming Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on October 21. It argues that the sugar tax risks placing the future viability of the entire sugar value chain at risk, as it has continued to turn beverage manufacturers away from locally produced sugar. Read more
IMF chief warns energy shock, growing debt and AI risks threaten global growth SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 7, 2026 0 6 Article rating: No rating The global economy is under threat from persistently high energy prices, record public debt and risks from the AI investment boom, International Monetary Fund MD Kristalina Georgieva warned on Wednesday, urging governments to implement protective fiscal and monetary policy measures. In a speech previewing IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings next week in Bangkok, Georgieva said the world was being pulled in two directions — a negative energy supply shock from the Middle East conflicts and a positive demand shock from artificial intelligence that is also fuelling inflation. "The combined impact of these two forces is highly uneven across the world," Georgieva said, adding that the AI boom was bypassing many countries. Read more