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Mozambique To Step Up Electricity Exports To Its Load-Shedding Stricken Neighbors

January 26, 2023 admin africa, clean power, hydroelectric, load shedding, mozambique, Solar energy, South Africa, wind energy, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:12:59 +0000

Mozambique currently has a low electrification rate with only 40% of its population having access to electricity. 36% of the population has access from the grid and 4% via off-grid projects. Mozambique wants to accelerate its access to electricity projects to meet its targets of universal access to electricity by 2030. This will be backed […]

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Can Low Speed Electric Vehicles Spark The EV Revolution In Africa? Part 2: Funky Electric’s FE1

January 25, 2023 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:00:34 +0000

Not everyone needs a 2.5-ton speed machine that goes from zero to 100km/h in 1 second. A small vehicle that has a range of about 100 km and limited to 60 km/h could be just fine for a lot of people living in urban areas. High school kids driving themselves to school, college students, recent […]

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Ora’s Good Cat Said To Be Coming To South Africa This Year

January 19, 2023 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, great wall motors, great wall ora good cat, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:45:06 +0000

Compared to similar markets around the world, South Africa has a small selection of electric vehicle models available for consumers to buy. This has contributed to the slow electric vehicles sales in the country. For a very long time, the only BEV that was available for consumers in South Africa to buy was the BMW […]

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Solar Planned to Support South African Mines

January 10, 2023 admin clean power, rio tinto, Solar energy, solar power plants, South Africa

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:52:04 +0000

South African and Australian miners are realising the benefits of using renewable energy to power their mines. It not only reduces their carbon footprint, but also their costs. “The shift is all the more attractive for miners in South Africa, where power cuts have reached record levels as state power utility Eskom struggles to meet […]

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4 Awesome Charts Show The Impact of South Africa’s Progressive Policy Framework

January 9, 2023 admin africa, clean power, Solar energy, South Africa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:15:06 +0000

In June of last year, South Africa increased the threshold for companies to produce their own electricity without a license from 1 MW to 100 MW. Generation projects will still need to obtain a grid connection permit to ensure that they meet all of the requirements for grid compliance. It was a surprising but very […]

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This Picture Really Shows The Extent of South Africa’s Electricity Crisis

January 8, 2023 admin africa, clean power, eskom, grid, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:35:22 +0000

A number of Southern African countries are in the midst of a devastating electricity crisis. Zimbabweans have been subjected to daily power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. In Zambia, load-shedding has just been increased to 12 hours a day. One of Africa’s largest power producers by installed capacity, South Africa is also […]

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Pan Africa Resources’ Evander Gold Mine Gets A 10 MW Solar PV Plant In South Africa

December 18, 2022 admin africa, clean power, Mining, Solar energy, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:17:49 +0000

Following the South African government’s decision in 2021 to raise the licensing threshold for embedded generation projects from 1 MW to 100 MW, JUWI Renewable Energies and South African mid-tier gold producer Pan Africa Resources (PAR) today announced that the 10 MW Elikhulu solar energy plant developed by JUWI for PAR’s Evander gold operations has […]

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South Africa’s Eskom Starts Construction Of Its First Utility Scale Battery Energy Storage Project

December 11, 2022 admin africa, clean power, Energy Storage, eskom, Solar energy, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:38:34 +0000

We are starting to see a lot of large grid battery projects taking off around the world. Several years ago, the ‘Big Battery” in Australia, the biggest in the world at that time, was making all the headlines. Australia is going big on these battery projects with several other active projects and another one, the […]

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Hybrid Battery System Project Developer Westore Announced As UK Climate Finance Accelerator Member

December 5, 2022 admin africa, batteries, Energy Storage, lead acid batteries, lifepo4 batteries, South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:00:45 +0000

The commercial and industrial (C&I) solar sector is really starting to take off across several countries on the African continent. Initially the market was characterized by a few projects where customers would install grid-tied solar PV plants after making an upfront payment to an installer or engineering, procurement, and construction company (EPC) on a turnkey […]

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Caledonia’s Blanket Mine In Zimbabwe Gets a 12 MW Solar PV Plant To Reduce Costs

November 18, 2022 admin africa, clean power, Mining, Solar energy, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:05:55 +0000

21% of Caledonia’s Blanket Mine’s on-mine costs are attributed to the mine’s energy usage. The mine’s total diesel consumption increased by 76% from 2019 to 2020 and by 55% from 2020 to 2021. This increase in the usage of diesel was due to frequent power outages and unstable supplies from ZESA, the national electricity utility […]