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Electricity, Nuclear, Clean Energy & Integrated National Electrification 2012 Plans: Department of Energy briefing
PMG 15 May 2012. Date of Meeting: 15 May 2012 Chairperson: Mr F Adams (Western Cape, ANC) Documents handed out: DOE Integrated National Electrification Programme (INEP) Annual Performance Plan 2012/2013 Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Performance Plan 2012/13 DOE Response to … Continue reading
Barrelling down the wrong track
Mail and Guardian 9 March 2012. To mix the favourite metaphors of the departments of transport and energy, transport is the heartbeat of the economy, but energy is the lifeblood. Transport in South Africa is overwhelmingly dependent on liquid petroleum … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Policy, Peak Oil, policy, public transport, rail
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SA’s environment deteriorating
Business Report 13 February 2012. South Africa’s natural environment has, over the past 20 years, deteriorated nearly the fastest of most countries in the world, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday. This was the finding of a group of scientists at … Continue reading
Posted in environment, policy, pollution
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China leads wind power growth
Engineering News 8 February 2012. Global wind power capacity rose more than 20% last year to nearly 239 GW – enough to cover 3% of the world’s electricity demand, preliminary data gathered by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) has … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Policy, policy, Renewable energy, wind energy
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Court papers reveal slow progress of fracking task team
Business Day 1 February 2012. IT APPEARS, from court papers, that the task team Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabanguestablished last year to investigate the controversial gas-extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) spent much of the year discussing its terms of reference… … Continue reading
Will the planet be saved?
Saliem Fakir, Low Carbon future, 20 January 2012. Fourteen days of deliberations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeeth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) culminated in a diplomatic coup where, for the first time, countries agreed … Continue reading
Eskom ‘must put SA’s needs first’
Mail and Guardian 13 January 2012. South Africa’s electricity exports are under the spotlight, as the threat of load shedding hit home this week when power utility Eskom warned that the national grid was under strain… http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-13-eskom-must-put-sas-needs-first/
Celebrity showbiz tactics leave us in the fracking dark
Mail and Guardian 13 January 2012. Fracking is controversial. Its supporters see it as nothing less than a paradigm shift, a game-changer that can radically reshape geopolitics. … But at the same time, fracking’s critics rightly worry about the contamination … Continue reading
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Carbon remains a risk
FM 22 December 2011. The world will move towards a low- carbon economy by pricing carbon to reflect the true costs of production. But are SA investors thinking about how this could affect companies’ survival, revenues and returns?… http://www.fm.co.za/Article.aspx?id=161610
Renewables procurement process may be extended beyond first phase
Engineering News 16 December 2011. The South African government is considering converting the process established for the procurement of 3 725 MW of renewable-energy capacity from independent power producers (IPPs) into a rolling programme for the procurement of additional capacity … Continue reading
