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A one-day workshop running alongside wind energy conference Windaba will provide a forum for idea sharing and best practice development to ensure the ZAR5 Billion to be generated for communities from wind farms is invested collaboratively and effectively. The title of the event, which will be held on November 4 ...
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High-powered panel to discuss critical issues in SA electricity sector at Windaba The electricity sector in South Africa has been the subject of intense debate in recent weeks, with the Eskom new-build projected to start delivering much needed power in 2015. Questions around where the country will find the electricity ...
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As Eskom continues to declare regular ‘emergencies’ and black outs persist, renewable energy has the potential to rescue the situation over the next five years – we just need to mix small and large scale technologies, says the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA). Our current electricity supply cannot provide ...
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Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Energy Minister and Windaba patron and Karen Breytenbach, leader of the government’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit and figurehead of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) have both confirmed their attendance as speakers at Windaba 2014. Minister Joemat-Pettersson will participate in a the formal opening ...
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... and economic development.As the South African energy sector continues to look for injections of hope, the South African Wind Energy Association’s (SAWEAs) official conference ‘Windaba’ promises to be more popular than ever in its fourth consecutive year. Already the wind industry is adding significant quantities of desperately needed electricity ...
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A report in today's issue of Legalbrief Environmental notes that SA had much to celebrate on Global Wind Day, 15 June. SA Wind Energy Association (Sawea) chair Dipolelo Elford said: '... there is no better time to highlight our ongoing efforts towards bettering communities. Continue Reading ...
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Cape Town - South Africa’s new wind power industry is booming, courtesy of government support through its renewable energy procurement programme. And while communities living alongside wind farms stand to benefit hugely, getting the right mechanisms in place to ensure that mandatory benefits accrue to affected communities is the “Holy ...
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SA had much to celebrate on Global Wind Day, 15 June, the SA Wind Energy Association (Sawea) said last week. Continue Reading ...
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The impact of South Africa’s ongoing strained energy supply has been more devastating than the effects of the protracted strike in the platinum belt, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Thursday. South Africa’s economy was 13%, or R366-billion, smaller than it would have been had energy supply been stable, ...
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Driving along the West Coast road not far from Cape Town, it is hard to miss the 37 turbines reaching into the sky at the Hopefield wind farm. It may seem an unusual sight in South Africa for now, but not for too long. There are likely to be 400 ...
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SAWEA, assisted by our PR consultant Jo Reeves and events company Jade Sky, hosted a contingent of media representatives at the Hopefield Wind Farm on 15 May 2014.  Wind energy is pushing ahead in South Africa, with five wind farms in full operation, another 15 currently under construction and a ...
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MUNICIPALITIES’ reliance on electricity tariffs for much of their revenue is holding back the expansion of small-scale energy production, Western Cape climate change and biodiversity director Helen Davies said on Monday. The province, which aims to be South Africa’s lowest carbon-emitting province per capita, is scoping research into other ways ...
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JUDGING by comments at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi recently, and recent statements by the South African Wind Energy Association, investment in the renewable energy sector is declining in Africa in general and in South Africa in particular. Evidence, however, indicates that far from experiencing a "rolling ...
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