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NUCLEAR ENERGY

SA wants local industry to gear up to supply nuclear programme

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A local nuclear construction industry capable of bolstering the local content of South Africa’s proposed nuclear energy construction programme needs to be established over the coming ten to twenty years, Department of Energy (DoE)...

By: Henry Lazenby

07 Feb 12

DEMAND AGGREGATION

Eskom set to roll out power buy-back pilot this month

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South African power utility Eskom will start implementing an innovative demand response aggregation pilot programme (DRAPP) this month with the intention of securing 500 MW of buy-back contracts from as many as 1 000 industrial and commercial...

By: Terence Creamer

06 Feb 12

Nuclear

French ready to support South African nuclear programme

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France is supportive of South Africa’s nuclear energy plans, assured French Foreign Ministry secretary-general Pierre Sellal in Pretoria on Thursday afternoon. The European power is a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. “Our...

By: Keith Campbell

03 Feb 12

Energy Measurement

COP 17 expo used yearly energy equivalent of 24 US households

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The two-week Climate Change Response Expo, held in Durban during the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, used the same electricity as 24 US households do during one year,...

Medical Technology

Hospital’s hi-tech medical scanner to be fully functional by midyear

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A R15.6-million positron emission tomography – computed tomography (PET-CT) scanner will be fully operational by mid-2012 at Tygerberg hospital, in the Western Cape, says medical radiation and isotopes company NTP Radioisotopes executive...

ENERGY

Partnership to evaluate reuse of Leaf battery in other applications

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Power and automation technology group ABB, developer of charging systems for electric and hybrid vehicles 4R Energy Corporation, vehicle manufacturer Nissan North America (NNA) and investment and solutions provider Sumitomo Corporation of America...

By: Dimakatso Motau

03 Feb 12

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Sasol teams up with BrightSource Energy on utility-scale SA solar study

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The clean energy unit of JSE-listed Sasol, which is best known for the conversion of coal and gas into fuels and chemicals, is moving ahead with a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a utility-scale solar power plant in South Africa...

By: Terence Creamer

02 Feb 12

electricity

Uganda adds 50 MW from Bujagali dam to tackle power cuts

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Uganda on Thursday added 50 MW to its grid, after the first of five turbines at its Bujagali hydropower dam on the Nile river was switched on, potentially reducing power cuts that triggered strikes in the east African country last year. Although...

By: Reuters

02 Feb 12

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Nelisiwe Magubane Phumzile Tshelane Rob King Brian Dames Pierre Sellal Paroshen Naidoo James Warwick Mapula Letsoalo Theuns Botha Bruno Melles Ken Srebnik Henri Loubser Joe Desmond John Woolard Irene Muloni	Medupi Power Station Tygerberg Hospital Bujagali Dam	Information Technology Radiation Time-of-flight Technology Tomography Electric Vehicle Battery Energy Storage Technology Less Mature Technology Solar Thermal Technology	Pretoria DURBAN
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