Samsung’s new program to provide solar-powered “internet schools” to African communities has been a big success. According to the children that benefit from the school, it’s “purely greatness, happily madness.” Samsung has previously described it as an “exclusively solar-powered, mobile, and completely independent classroom that is geared towards increasing … [continued]
The US development finance agency will provide as much as $250 million in financing for MEMC and its SunEdison solar energy subsidiary, along with two local companies, to develop a 60-megawatt PV facility in the Free State province town of Boshoff. The project is the result of the companies’ successful bid in South Africa’s historic Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Program. […]
Iron ore mines in Brazil, a chromium mine in South Africa, and an open-cast coal mine in Germany’s Rhennish mining area — they’re all making use of, or preparing to make use of, renewable energy systems, an emerging trend that could benefit mining companies and local communities in several substantial respects. […]
JinkoSolar, a leading global manufacturer of solar energy products, is working with Solea Renewables to develop the first ever off-grid utility scale photovoltaic system in South Africa for a Limpopo province chrome mine. “The 1 megawatt plant will produce approximately 1.8 GWh of electricity per year and will effectively … [continued]
It’s been a long time in the works, but South Africa’s renewable energy drive is on much firmer ground with the award of contracts to develop 19 new renewable energy projects. Valued at more than $3 billion, the projects will result in the construction of manufacturing facilities and the creation of more than 7,000 green jobs. That’s in addition to all the CO2, greenhouse gases, pollution and environmental degradation that will be avoided. […]
Green job creation, as well as clean energy generation, is a focal point in evaluating 2nd-round bids for developing renewable energy projects in South Africa as the government aims for renewable energy resources to meet 42% of the nation’s electricity needs by 2030.
