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New South African Lithium-Ion Cell Mega-Factory, Plans For 32 GWh/Year By 2028

February 9, 2020 admin batteries, battery materials, cobalt, Energy Storage, eskom, graphite, grid, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, manganese, Manufacturing, megamillion, mineral resources, nickel, nickel manganese cobalt batteries, nmc batteries, South Africa, southern africa, uyilo emobility programme

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:34:00 +0000

The battery storage market in South Africa is expected to grow significantly going forward as companies and homes look to cushion themselves from ongoing electricity blackouts. Eskom, the stated-owned utility company, has been battling to keep the lights on during peak demand hours. Electricity blackouts are expected for at least another 18 months according to some reports

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Electric Deliveries Are Spreading Across Africa, Botswana Startup MyFoodness Adopts Electric Scooters On Its Routes

February 2, 2020 admin africa, botswana, clean transport, consumer technology, electric scooters, Electric vehicles, gaborone, green economy, Kenya, myfoodness, South Africa, yadea

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:47:05 +0000

Slowly but surely, we are getting there. We recently shared Kenyan startup GreenSpoon’s move to embrace electric delivery vans and ABInBev’s South African Breweries’ addition of the Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter to its fleet. Well, now, on our travels to Botswana, we came across MyFoodness, which has been using electric scooters on its delivery routes since

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Botswana-Based Accite Holdings Brings Plant-Based Meat Revolution To Africa With Beyond Meat

January 22, 2020 admin africa’s nutrition, Agriculture, beyond burger, botswana, centre for sustainable systems, gaborone botswana, HEALTH, infinite foods, plant-based protein, South Africa, sub-saharan africa, zambia, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:40:35 +0000

Infinite Foods, a subsidiary of Botswana-based Accite Holdings, plans to tackle Africa’s nutrition problem in a more sustainable way by promoting plant-based food products across Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa’s expanding population and development will see many move into middle income status and with it increase their meat and dairy intake. Increased meat and dairy intake on a global scale will put more strain on the Earth’s resources which will struggle to sustain the projected surge in demand for red meat and milk using an animal-based system, which is inefficient

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Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer: “What is urgently needed is more power from somewhere”

December 20, 2019 admin batteries, blackouts, clean power, Coal, Energy Storage, eskom, Fossil Fuels, grid, loadshedding, nuclear energy, Solar energy, South Africa, south africa blackouts, south africa clean energy, south africa renewable energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:23:40 +0000

Eskom, a South African electric company, is having some serious issues. Arrests have been made over fraud involving millions of dollars. The BBC reports that Eskom has been dealing with mismanagement and corruption scandals that have led to its current serious financial issues. Last week, South Africa experienced the largest power outage in over a decade

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All for a good cause: Purpose-led brands aim to put philanthropy first

December 19, 2019 admin fashion & beauty, First Nations, South Africa

Credit to Author: Aleesha Harris| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:00:34 +0000

In purpose-driven groups, the philanthropic work is just as important as the business. And, sometimes, even more so.

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Hitachi Exiting MHPS; MHI Will be Venture’s Sole Owner

December 18, 2019 admin abb, boilers, Business, Coal, coal plants, courts, eskom, finance, hitachi, International, kusile, Markets, medupi, MHI, mhps, news, South Africa, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:43:32 +0000

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Japanese technology conglomerate Hitachi will withdraw from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), a joint venture it established in 2014 with another power equipment giant, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), over a dispute stemming from construction of two massive defect-ridden coal plants in South Africa. Under a Dec. 18-announced settlement reached by MHI and Hitachi, Hitachi will […]

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Tesla Powerwall 2 Arrives Just In Time As Power Cuts Worsen In South Africa

December 17, 2019 admin africa, batteries, clean power, Coal, consumer technology, demand response, Energy Storage, eskom, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid storage, home energy management, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, Off The Grid, policy & politics, rooftop solar, Smart Grid, Solar energy, South Africa, tesla, tesla powerwall, tesla powerwall 2.0, tesla south africa, the powerwall, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:05:12 +0000

On the 9th of this month, for the first time ever, Eskom, South Africa’s national power utility company, implemented Stage 6 Load shedding in which Eskom had to shed a load of 6000 MW to stabilise the grid. South Africa’s current installed capacity is 49.4 GW, according to the Draft Integrated Recourse Plan (2018) from South Africa’s Department of Energy

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Russia Offers to Expand Nuclear Power in Africa

December 2, 2019 admin Business, Egypt, el dabaa nuclear power plant, International, koeberg nuclear power station, news, Nuclear, rosatom, Russia, South Africa, vver-1200

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

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South Africa is the only country on the African continent with nuclear power generation, but Russia is working to make nuclear power a reality for more African nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke

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Battery Supply Constraints On The World Market & Electricity Blackouts Spur South African Battery Assembly

November 6, 2019 admin america, batteries, battery firms, byd’s b box, China, clean energy south africa, clean power, consumer technology, energy efficiency south africa, energy management systems, Energy Storage, Europe, grid, Johannesburg, lg chem resu, lithium iron phosphate battery, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, powerwall, powerwall system, renewable energy standards, research, samsung sdi’s aio series (now hansol aio), sonnen, South Africa, stationary storage, tesla, the enphase ac battery

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:00:30 +0000

Just like many EV brands blame the slow ramp-up of EV production on battery supply constraints, lithium-ion home batteries have not been produced in large volumes. With a huge world market to address, a limited quantity of the batteries from these global brands get to reach Africa

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Restructuring Report: Eskom ‘Fundamentally Insolvent, Permanently Impaired’

October 24, 2019 admin africa, Business, Coal, cro advisers, debt, Economy, eskom, finance, Gas, International, kusile, Legal & Regulatory, medupi, news, Nuclear, operational, Renewables, South Africa, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:32:17 +0000

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Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned utility that produces nearly 90% of the African powerhouse’s electricity, is saddled with liabilities, unavoidable expenses, and stranded costs that exceed $113 billion, and for various reasons, it is “fundamentally insolvent, permanently impaired, and will never be a true going concern enterprise under its current legal, operational, and governance structure,” concludes […]

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