China has solar power plants that cumulatively produce more than four times our total electricity needs.As a South African, looking at statistics like this, it is difficult not to feel that something is horribly amiss in our country.

It seems that in 2019, South Africa is facing an energy crisis due to the fact that the electrical grid in the country is pretty old and outdated.

early half the world’s electricity will come from renewable energy by 2050 as costs of wind, solar and battery storagecontinue to plummet.

Energy storage is becoming a critical question when it comes to renewable energy. Swiss startup, Energy Vault, has significant and concrete plans to tackle the problem. 

 For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal.

The South African authorities are planning to make less coal, a lot of wind and a significant amount of solar energy.

Seven years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 – a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River – with great fanfare.

Trains are the most efficient mode of transportation we have. Despite carrying 9% of global passengers and 7% of global cargo, they make up just 3% of global transportation energy use.

Installs ‘solar orchard’, shares excess power in area fraught by shortages

More countries around the world are constructing solar farms as it’s extremely cost effective.

The renewable energy industry enjoyed a banner year in 2020.

Rising sea levels, wildfire seasons that are the worst on record, parched cropland—in spite of all the evidence that human civilization is losing its game of chicken with the climate, no one is flinching.

Southern Africa is popularly associated with sunshine. Does that make the region exceptionally suited to solar energy generation?

The built world is (and will continue to be) increasingly changing as the effects of climate change start reaching dangerously record-breaking levels. Design must adapt to the times, so we’re beginning to see an increased focus on environmental impact.

To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is an important source of clean energy. Scientists and engineers see that plus far more potential.

It’s now almost an article of faith among energy writers in the bulk of the media that “renewables” are the best form of energy from an environmental point of view.

South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has not been able to provide a steady electricity supply for several years now.

As South Africa scrambles for solutions to its energy crisis, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) announced during a virtual national stakeholder engagement on Thursday that it would open up public participation to shorten the bureaucratic process in the environmental impact assessments for solar energy project development.  

The world’s largest solar photovoltaic farms give us an insight into how much acreage is required to produce meaningful amounts of electricity.