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Blue Label Media partners with African Bank to roll out new corporate identity across 155 buses

Copper could cure Murray & Roberts cold after De Beers diamond cough

Lindsey Schutters

Data breach alert: Over 100,000 fake accounts linked to SA grant-fraud claim

News24 journalists take top honours in 2024 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards

Boxer formally announces its intention to list on JSE

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Energy ministry calls for more local content after R17bn spent on renewables

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UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

UN Security Council to meet on Ethiopia dam

Michelle Nichols 2 Jul 2021

Source: Wikipedia

Inga 3 hydropower would cost South Africans billions

30 Jun 2021

John Lewis, MD, Aggreko Africa

The path to carbon neutrality is fuelled by hybrid power

John Lewis 29 Jun 2021

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Port of Saldanha. Source: Transnet Port Terminals

DFFE sinks Karpowership deal

24 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

Kieran Whyte 11 Jun 2021

Cloetesville Primary receives its Electrical Performance Certificate. Image: Stefan Els

GreenX Engineering helps Cloetesville Primary to achieve EPC certificate

11 Jun 2021

Why Southern Africa's interior is an ideal place to generate solar energy

Why Southern Africa's interior is an ideal place to generate solar energy

Hartmut Winkler 10 Jun 2021

Covid-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice

Covid-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice

Ian Goldin 2 Jun 2021

Caspar Herzberg, president, Middle East and Africa, Schneider Electric

Deregulation and technology will fulfil South Africa's power needs

Caspar Herzberg 28 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Renewable energy is the new oil

Nato Oosthuizen & Alun Rich 26 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Schedule 2 licence cap should be increased to 50MW

24 May 2021

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

20 May 2021

General view of the coal-based Kriel Power Station owned by state power utility Eskom in Mpumalanga, near Kriel, South Africa, February 17, 2020. Reuters/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Activists and South African govt lock horns over coal pollution

Tim Cocks 18 May 2021

Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Solar PV guidance for facility managers

Solar PV guidance for facility managers

Menno Sulsters, MANGO-OMC 11 May 2021

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

10 May 2021

Powering the economy through alternative energy

Powering the economy through alternative energy

5 May 2021

Wind and solar power need to be adopted more quickly to avoid fossil gas traps

Wind and solar power need to be adopted more quickly to avoid fossil gas traps

5 May 2021

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

30 Apr 2021

RES4Africa presents new study in support of SA energy reform

30 Apr 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

29 Apr 2021

Ntombifuthi Ntuli, CEO, Sawea

A case for net zero carbon economy

Ntombifuthi Ntuli 28 Apr 2021

Kieran Whyte, partner and head of the energy, mining and infrastructure practice, Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg,

South Africa's green hydrogen potential

Kieran Whyte 23 Apr 2021

More coal-fired power or 100% renewables? For the next few decades, both paths are wrong

22 Apr 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Natascha Viljoen, CEO, Anglo American Platinum

Public private collaboration to create a hydrogen valley

1 Apr 2021

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Source: Wikipedia

Inga 3 hydropower would cost South Africans billions

30 Jun 2021

John Lewis, MD, Aggreko Africa

The path to carbon neutrality is fuelled by hybrid power

John Lewis 29 Jun 2021

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Sudan rejects Ethiopian plan to fill giant dam a second time - senior official

Khalid Abdelaziz 28 Jun 2021

Port of Saldanha. Source: Transnet Port Terminals

DFFE sinks Karpowership deal

24 Jun 2021

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Australia's Fortescue in talks on giant Congo hydro project

Melanie Burton and Hereward Holland 15 Jun 2021

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

New electricity self-generation thresholds a welcome relief

Kieran Whyte 11 Jun 2021

Cloetesville Primary receives its Electrical Performance Certificate. Image: Stefan Els

GreenX Engineering helps Cloetesville Primary to achieve EPC certificate

11 Jun 2021

Why Southern Africa's interior is an ideal place to generate solar energy

Why Southern Africa's interior is an ideal place to generate solar energy

Hartmut Winkler 10 Jun 2021

Covid-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice

Covid-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice

Ian Goldin 2 Jun 2021

Caspar Herzberg, president, Middle East and Africa, Schneider Electric

Deregulation and technology will fulfil South Africa's power needs

Caspar Herzberg 28 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Renewable energy is the new oil

Nato Oosthuizen & Alun Rich 26 May 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Schedule 2 licence cap should be increased to 50MW

24 May 2021

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

Green Connection: Energy budget still reeks of too much fossil fuel

20 May 2021

General view of the coal-based Kriel Power Station owned by state power utility Eskom in Mpumalanga, near Kriel, South Africa, February 17, 2020. Reuters/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

Activists and South African govt lock horns over coal pollution

Tim Cocks 18 May 2021

Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Solar PV guidance for facility managers

Solar PV guidance for facility managers

Menno Sulsters, MANGO-OMC 11 May 2021

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

10 May 2021

Powering the economy through alternative energy

Powering the economy through alternative energy

5 May 2021

Wind and solar power need to be adopted more quickly to avoid fossil gas traps

Wind and solar power need to be adopted more quickly to avoid fossil gas traps

5 May 2021

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

30 Apr 2021

RES4Africa presents new study in support of SA energy reform

30 Apr 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

Emerging hydrogen industry can help tackle climate change, but complex risks need managing

29 Apr 2021

Ntombifuthi Ntuli, CEO, Sawea

A case for net zero carbon economy

Ntombifuthi Ntuli 28 Apr 2021

Kieran Whyte, partner and head of the energy, mining and infrastructure practice, Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg,

South Africa's green hydrogen potential

Kieran Whyte 23 Apr 2021

More coal-fired power or 100% renewables? For the next few decades, both paths are wrong

22 Apr 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Natascha Viljoen, CEO, Anglo American Platinum

Public private collaboration to create a hydrogen valley

1 Apr 2021

Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered

Where a global carbon tax meets a just energy transition

1 Apr 2021

For now, only those who can afford it will be able to escape the power cuts. Shutterstock/ Arnold Petersen

Why South Africa's electricity blackouts are set to continue for the next five years

31 Mar 2021

Wind energy needs to triple to reach net zero by 2050

Wind energy needs to triple to reach net zero by 2050

29 Mar 2021

Minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, Barbara Creecy

Transitioning away from coal

25 Mar 2021

The Inyanda-Roodeplaat wind farm site in the Eastern Cape, taken from the cover of an Environmental Impact Report.

Controversial Watsons' wind farm approval overturned on review

John Yeld 24 Mar 2021

Karpowership vessel, Kaya Bey

RMIPPPP floating power stations raise questions on carbon emissions

24 Mar 2021

Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia. Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans

Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here's how

Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021

Gwede Mantashe, minister of mineral resources and energy

8 bidders for emergency power projects announced

19 Mar 2021

Offshore wind energy could help solve SA's energy woes

15 Mar 2021

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

12 Mar 2021

Women in renewable energy mentorship programme launches

Women in renewable energy mentorship programme launches

12 Mar 2021