Call For Renewable Energy Now: Section 34 Determination

Attn: The Honourable Minister of Minerals and Energy, Gwede Mantashe Dear Honourable Minister Mantashe It is not in dispute that: The electricity crisis and load-shedding continues to cause human suffering and cost the economy billions. The law (Electricity Regulation Act section 34) provides for the Minister for Energy to issue a determination for large-scale new [...]

By |2022-07-07T11:33:44+02:00July 7th, 2022|

PRESS RELEASE: Khayelitsha Youth Play With Solar 2021

MEDIA RELEASE: 07 October 2021 Young Climate Activists from Khayelitsha embark on ‘Playing With Solar’ programme following their Climate Action outside Parliament (Cape Town) last week and the Build Up to COP26.   On Saturday, 9 October 2021, young climate activists from Khayelitsha, hot off the heels from the 24th September 2021 Parliament (Cape Town) [...]

By |2021-10-07T13:28:25+02:00October 7th, 2021|

Mobilising Support For Project 90

Mobilising Support For Project 90 - We need to cover costs for 3 months to continue inspiring and mobilising society towards a sustainably developed and equitable low-carbon future.  About The Project:  Entering 2020, Project 90 by 2030 was celebrating a record number of 21 YouLead Initiative participants receiving their Bronze President’s Award and one young [...]

By |2021-02-12T14:39:45+02:00February 12th, 2021|

 ENERGISING OUR FUTURE – TOGETHER

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 [...]

By |2020-12-16T11:35:49+02:00December 16th, 2020|

JET: SA’s need for more renewable energy

Mismanagement, aging and problematic coal infrastructure along with a stalled renewable energy (RE) programme have fuelled regular power cuts since 2007. According to the new chief executive officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter, Eskom has set itself a target of 18 months to end the outages and improve the maintenance programme. The Council for Scientific and [...]

By |2021-07-05T13:28:11+02:00February 25th, 2020|

Inga 3: Too Costly and Risky for South Africa

Why solar and wind generation will better serve South Africa’s energy expansion planning 1. Introduction and Background This note summarizes a scenario-forecasting exercise for South Africa. It is extracted from a detailed technical investigation of the potential for solar and wind generation as an alternative to the proposed Inga 3 hydropower project. Inga 3 is [...]

By |2019-07-30T12:20:24+02:00July 30th, 2019|

OWNERSHIP IN THE REIPPP PROGRAMME

The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement programme - otherwise known as the REI4P - is a programme developed to encourage private investment to help develop the renewable energy sector within South Africa.  After 4 bidding rounds and over R200 billion invested in the programme (which has added 6 323MW of renewable power to South Africa’s grid [...]

By |2019-05-06T18:35:04+02:00May 6th, 2019|
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