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SAWEA NQF Level 3 Wind Turbine Operator Skills Programme key to address unemployment

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

SAWEA NQF Level 3 Wind Turbine Operator Skills Programme key to address unemployment

Morongoa Ramaboa 20 May 2025

Eskom’s approval processes, coupled with complex environmental and land use procedures, contribute to the complexities encountered by IPPs and supplementary power suppliers (Image supplied)

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

How to overcome complexities in South Africa’s renewable energy sector

8 May 2025

Team Nexus, the event winners, proposed Vital-Vaults

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Youth energy innovations shine at TCS Sustainathon

7 May 2025

Building funding ready B2B businesses: Applications now open for the SME Advancer Programme

Funding

Building funding ready B2B businesses: Applications now open for the SME Advancer Programme

Issued by Edge Growth 25 Apr 2025

YDE and Actis Acts launch 'Lumen30' to train 30 South African youths in solar energy installation

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

YDE and Actis Acts launch 'Lumen30' to train 30 South African youths in solar energy installation

Issued by Yellow Door Energy 24 Apr 2025

Environmental approvals get digital boost with new screening tool

Environment & Natural Resources

Environmental approvals get digital boost with new screening tool

22 Apr 2025

Source: Hotel Verde. Hotel Verde, Africa’s greenest hotel, exemplifies sustainable infrastructure and green job creation in South Africa’s tourism and construction sectors.

Economy

Green infrastructure and jobs: South Africa’s plan for a brighter economic future

Teboho Makhabane 11 Apr 2025

Source: © SA People There is an urgent need for substantial investment in grid modernisation in South Africa

Energy & Mining

South Africa's renewable energy future: Opportunities and challenges

Manuele Battisti 1 Apr 2025

Local community trust debt fund advances social upliftment in renewable energy sector

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Local community trust debt fund advances social upliftment in renewable energy sector

Issued by Infra Impact Investment Managers 7 Mar 2025

Matthews Bantsijang is a Senior Manager in the Electricity division of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

New standards pave way for renewable energy breakthrough

Lindsey Schutters 5 Mar 2025

Sappi and Enpower Trading reach Financial Close on PPA for power deal from SunCentral

Energy

Sappi and Enpower Trading reach Financial Close on PPA for power deal from SunCentral

Issued by Sappi 13 Feb 2025

Markets & Investment

Natural Resources Outlook 2025: Trade tariffs and geopolitics set to bolster gold's appeal

George Cheveley 13 Jan 2025

Pictured: Forbes Padayachee

Energy

Astute African manufacturers will move to clean power to align with global investor and importer expectations

Forbes Padayachee, Issued by Yellow Door Energy 22 Nov 2024

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

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

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

Lindsey Schutters 10 Nov 2024

Applications open for 2025 Wind Industry Internship Programme

Skills Training

Applications open for 2025 Wind Industry Internship Programme

25 Oct 2024

ACED delivered Sasol’s first wind farm for green hydrogen

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

ACED boosts Sasol’s green hydrogen efforts with wind power

Lindsey Schutters 18 Oct 2024

Waterberg Boerdery and Yellow Door Energy inaugurate solar and battery energy storage system

Sustainable Farming

Waterberg Boerdery and Yellow Door Energy inaugurate solar and battery energy storage system

Issued by Yellow Door Energy 14 Oct 2024

Globeleq Scholarship Fund applications open for 2025

Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

Globeleq Scholarship Fund applications open for 2025

7 Oct 2024

Minister Ramokgopa fields question in the Windaba media conference alongside Sawea CEO Niveshen Govender

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#Windaba2024: Ramokgopa hints at local manufacturing policy for renewable tech

Lindsey Schutters 4 Oct 2024

#Windaba2024: Ramaphosa’s climate commission head confirms renewables push

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#Windaba2024: Ramaphosa’s climate commission head confirms renewables push

Lindsey Schutters 3 Oct 2024

Source: Supplied.

Property

Newinbosch pioneers sustainable and affordable urban living

5 Sep 2024

Engie's Aurora windfarm on Cape Town's West Coast is a major Sawea project

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Sawea calls out Nersa and Eskom on grid capacity issues

6 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Dino Zuccollo, head of investor solutions at Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management.

Taxation & Regulation

Tax incentive window closing for SA renewables

5 Aug 2024

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Trends

Is the green economy the key to job creation in Africa?

2 Aug 2024

The 2nd annual Africa Impact Investment Award winners

ESG & Sustainability

Winners of the 2024 Africa Impact Investment Awards

23 Jul 2024

280MW wind project secured for Rio Tinto and Sibanye-Stillwater

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

280MW wind project secured for Rio Tinto and Sibanye-Stillwater

11 Jun 2024

IEEFA report casts more doubt on SMR future

Nuclear Power

IEEFA report casts more doubt on SMR future

Lindsey Schutters 11 Jun 2024

President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures ahead of signing into law a national health bill that aims to provide universal coverage to South Africans, at the Union Buildings. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Energy

Energy transition is an ANC election campaign obstacle

Joe Bavier 16 May 2024

Solarworld Africa hosted a partner conference in Cape Town for its 40th anniversary

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Solar industry: ‘South Africa shouldn’t waste public money on local manufacturing’

Lindsey Schutters 18 Apr 2024

Property Point seeks renewable energy SMEs for new entrepreneurship programme

Social Entrepreneurship

Property Point seeks renewable energy SMEs for new entrepreneurship programme

14 Mar 2024

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana wasted no time in a rapid 2024 Budget Speech delivery.

Markets & Investment

#BudgetSpeech2024: Treasury takes crucial step towards energy security

Lindsey Schutters 21 Feb 2024

Image source: Petr Malinak –

ESG & Sustainability

Investing in Africa's bright, green energy future

Angela Simpson and Matthew Martin 12 Feb 2024

Banking

Central banks should be fighting the climate crisis – here’s why

Martin Sokol and Jennie C. Stephens 12 Jan 2024

Image: Supplied

4th Industrial Revolution

Green energy boom and its impact on jobs in SA

22 Nov 2023

Image source: Kindel Media from

Tax Law

Income Tax Act amendments - the silver lining to load shedding?

Nirvasha Singh and Sakiwe Canca 22 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied.

Banking

Mauritius Commercial Bank Capital Markets advises EnVolt in historic green bond

7 Nov 2023

Rene Salmon, EGA’s Production Manger showcasing the assembling of the solar panels to delegates. Source: Supplied

Sustainability

USAID delegation visits EGA's all-woman solar panel assembly plant

22 Sep 2023

#WomensMonth: Renewables are key to closing gender gap in the energy sector

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#WomensMonth: Renewables are key to closing gender gap in the energy sector

Tamee Soudien-Witten 8 Aug 2023

#WomensMonth: Linda Mabhena-Olagunju on transformation in the renewable energy sector

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#WomensMonth: Linda Mabhena-Olagunju on transformation in the renewable energy sector

Sindy Peters 1 Aug 2023

Call for increased SME sector support to foster SA economic recovery

SMEs

Call for increased SME sector support to foster SA economic recovery

Issued by Business Partners Limited 30 Jun 2023

Boosting Africa's energy transition - initiatives, funding and investment

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Boosting Africa's energy transition - initiatives, funding and investment

Kieran Whyte et al. 26 Jun 2023

Climate change: What risk does it pose to SA small businesses?

SMEs

Climate change: What risk does it pose to SA small businesses?

Issued by Business Partners Limited 31 May 2023

#AfricaMonth: Renewable energy deployment and the need for increased investment in Africa

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

#AfricaMonth: Renewable energy deployment and the need for increased investment in Africa

Sindy Peters 16 May 2023

Development programme launched for women in renewables sector

Sustainability

Development programme launched for women in renewables sector

30 Mar 2023

Sapvia CEO urges government to seek counsel from renewables community

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Sapvia CEO urges government to seek counsel from renewables community

17 Feb 2023

EWSETA and CSIR collaborate to grow much-needed skills in the renewable energy sector

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

EWSETA and CSIR collaborate to grow much-needed skills in the renewable energy sector

Issued by At Vogue Communication Agency 4 Jan 2023

COP27: An historic deal was made, but what comes next?

Climate Change

COP27: An historic deal was made, but what comes next?

Irene Lauro 23 Nov 2022

South Africa's water crisis likely to be worse than its energy crisis

Infrastructure & Utilities

South Africa's water crisis likely to be worse than its energy crisis

2 Nov 2022

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Environmental Law

African energy transition policies and regulatory developments - Part 1

27 Oct 2022