TACKLING ENERGY POVERTY AND IMPROVING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE WESTERN CAPE South Africa needs to invest time and resources to move towards a just energy transition (JET). In Project 90’s latest research report we investigated what a JET means for the Western Cape. The province has shown political will to shift to low carbon energy [...]
EGSA has appealed to SA Cabinet: standstill on climate crisis response Richard Worthington and Richard Halsey on behalf of the Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA) network - a group of Civil Society Organisations dedicated to promoting transparent, inclusive and accountable decision-making in the energy sector - have sent a letter to Cabinet Ministers. This letter [...]
Eskom's debt gap How do we solve Eskom debt – the big SONA gap Nobody said running a country was easy. Or if they did, it could not be a serious reflection on what those at the helm of South Africa currently face. Even making the annual stock-take speech is delayed by over an hour [...]
Journal Entry 1 By Thando Lukuko, Community Partnership Project Officer, 13 November 2018 Smart Citizens It has been a very exciting few months for the Community Partnership Programme (CPP) Team at Project 90 by 2030, since the 2nd iteration of the SMART Citizens In Action project kicked off in 2018. The SMART Citizens In [...]
On 4 October 2018, Project 90 by 2030 held Public Participation Workshops with a group of concerned community leaders from Nyanga, Hillview, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha to discuss the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2018) and how the various proposed scenarios could affect their daily lives. It was clear from comments made that the current and rising [...]
The technology that uses light energy from the sun to generate electricity - Solar Electricity - has been around for approximately 179 years and was originally discovered by a French scientist called Edmond Becquerel somewhere around 1839 or so. Although the first silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell was already invented by Bell Labs in 1954, it [...]
Project 90 by 2030's #JustEnergyTransition 2018 speaker, Thabo Sibeko - Program Officer for Earthlife Africa - delivers a presentation on "Pilot Renewable Energy Projects in Communities" - undertaken in various school communities in Gauteng. The project deliverables include the installation of solar panels and biogas digesters for power generation; and the development of food gardens [...]
When Project 90 by 2030 first arrived on the scene in 2007, we set up Carbon-Cutting Clubs in high schools in the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal with the aim of reducing the carbon footprints of the top South African schools and - by default - the learners' homes. This project was successful to [...]
In April 2016, the Leadership Clubs in the Western Cape began preparing for their Days of Action which are set to take place in August. This year, the Leadership Clubs will be creating a campaign in the lead up to their Days of Action to stir some inspiration and rally others in their school communities [...]
The past few weeks will undoubtedly go down as some of the most incredible and memorable weeks in the history of the Project 90 Leadership Clubs. It saw eight Project 90 Leadership Clubs in the Western Cape embark on a Low-Carbon project collectively (aptly named the Playing with Solar project) to build a solar mobile [...]
