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INVESTMENT

Return to era when State contributed 50c in every rand invested - economist

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In light of serious external and domestic economic headwinds, a concerted efforts were required to raise public sector investment to levels where South Africa once again began sustaining a minimum yearly investment rate of 25% of gross domestic...
08 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...
06 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,...
 
 
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...
02 Feb 12
 
 
COAL

Coal-dependent South Africa has no explicit coal policy – Prof

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South Africa did not have an explicit coal policy despite its heavy dependence on the mineral, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business’ Professor Anton Eberhard has pointed out. Eberhard, a member of the National Planning Commission...
01 Feb 12
 
 
ELECTRICITY

Water as crucial as coal - Eskom

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South Africa needed to wake up to the reality that water was just as important to the economy as coal, Eskom chief commercial officer Dan Marokane said on Wednesday. Marokane told the IHS McCloskey South African Coal Export Conference in Cape...
01 Feb 12
 
 
POWER PRICES

Gigaba says power price review geared to protecting SA from shocks Video Available

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Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba South Africa’s electricity pricing policy (EPP) review which has been initiated by the Department of Energy (DoE), will interrogate ways to “protect” the economy from “pricing shocks”, but was unlikely to entail a “complete revision”...
30 Jan 12
 
 
ELECTRICITY

Eskom still pursuing mandatory savings 'safety net' Video Available

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Eskom CEO Brian Dames State-owned power utility Eskom has reiterated its call for South Africans to urgently reduce electricity demand by 10%, or some 3 000 MW, adding that it is continuing to pursue plans to ensure that the energy conservation scheme (ECS) be made...
30 Jan 12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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