WIND POWER SECTOR GIVES IRP2019 A THUMBS UP AS IT LEADS THE TRANSITION
South Africa is clearly transitioning to a cleaner green economy, as Cabinet’s approved 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), outlines increased allocations for wind power. Wind will contribute eighteen percent, solar photovoltaic six percent and hydro eight percent. ...
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WIND POWER SECTOR RESPONDS TO RENEWED LOAD SHEDDING AND IRP
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) has responded to the recent load-shedding that the country is experiencing once again. The Association sees the current energy constraints as a clear symptom of Eskom fleet’s reduced energy availability factor (EAF) and a reminder that the country needs to procure new generation ...
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More than energy generation: wind power to transform Africa’s economy
Besides generating much-needed clean and affordable electricity, wind energy has the power to unlock economic growth in Africa, give a new impulse to the continent’s under-performing manufacturing sector. This and developing an energy storage industry can develop and transform economies and create millions of direct and indirect jobs. ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA TO BECOME A GLOBAL WIND ENERGY POWERHOUSE: 18GW POTENTIAL
Windaba 2019 kicked off with a welcome address by His Honourable Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Mr Gwede Mantashe, acknowledging the role of the wind sector in South Africa’s economic growth. ...
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WIND ENERGY SECTOR SERVES THE COUNTRY’S DEVELOPMENT AGENDA BUT REQUIRES THE 2019 IRP
As the Energy Sector once again hear of yet another delay in the release of the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) update, the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) reminds key stakeholders of the role that renewable energy plays in the country’s future development and more specifically in the achievement ...
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WIND INDUSTRY RESPONDS TO CHANGE IN IPPO LEADERSHIP
In response to Karen Breytenbach exiting the Independent Power Producer’s Office, SAWEA trusts that the South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REI4P), which is one of the country’s most highly regarded public–private partnership (PPP) projects, is well enough established to withstand this transition ...
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SAWEA CALLS FOR THE URGENT FINALIZATION OF THE INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN
The wind energy industry, represented by the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) is calling for the release of the finalised Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) in order to create the certainty required to attract foreign investment. The document has not been updated since 2010. ...
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SAWEA CALLS FOR DECENTRALISED ENERGY GENERATION TO BOOST SUPPLY AND GROWTH
The wind industry believes that it’s time to relook at how energy is supplied in South Africa and to evolve and adapt the country’s outdated system. To shift away from a centralised monopoly to a more efficient decentralised generation model will increase competition and drive down energy prices, which will ...
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SAWEA WELCOMES GWEDE MANTASHE AS NEW ENERGY MINISTER
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) has issued a statement of support, in response to President Ramaphosa’s unveiling of the national executive of the country’s sixth administration, which sees Cabinet-veteran, Minister Gwede Mantashe, take over the Energy portfolio from Jeff Radebe. ...
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WIND ENERGY CONFERENCE OPENS DOORS FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
As concerns around energy security in South Africa grow, so does it for the rest of the continent, where access to energy plagues close to 1 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. It is therefore befitting that this year’s Windaba conference will bring together industry leaders, investors, power producers and ...
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SAWEA SUPPORTS DECISION TO LICENCE BUSINESSES TO GENERATE RENEWABLE POWER
SAWEA welcomes the statement by the Minister of Energy to grant NERSA permission to licence small scale embedded generation projects. ...
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Decentralised renewable energy producers can help relieve pressure on the grid
A new report launched on Monday 11th March at the Res4Med&Africa Regulatory Innovation Conference in Cape Town shines a light on opportunities for corporates, municipalities and intensive electricity users looking for affordable and low carbon ways of securing electricity. ...
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Smaller scale renewable energy producers can help relieve pressure on the grid
A new report launched on Monday 11th March at the Res4Med&Africa Regulatory Innovation Conference in Cape Town shines a light on opportunities for corporates and intensive electricity users looking for affordable and low carbon ways of securing electricity. ...
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Government must act now to realise renewable energy dividend for SA’s economy
Amid an electricity supply crisis, new statistics show that without renewables the situation would have been worse. BY Brenda Martin and Tebogo Movundlela ...
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