14 Mar 2011
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has opened its 8th programme cycle with a call for proposed clean energy projects targeting Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The Partnership expects to fund approximately 30 projects with €4.5 million contributed by the Governments of the United Kingdom and Norway. The level of funding [...]
28 Sep 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
ore than 140 investors, financiers and other clean energy experts have gathered in Johannesburg for the Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFRICEF), where they were presented with business plans from nine different finalist project developers, and where an international panel of judges selected the top businesses as winners of the CTI PFAN Clean Energy [...]
15 Mar 2010
by REEEP Southern Africa - Category: Regional News
South African company removes barriers to emissions reporting: Despite the failure of the climate change conference in Copenhagen to achieve a binding treaty around carbon emission reductions, a South African company, sustainableIT has just developed TheCarbonReport.com, which now allows companies, irrespective of size, to measure and report on emissions through validated processes. See 25degrees.net for [...]
13 Jan 2010
by REEEP Southern Africa - Category: REEEP, Regional News
What happened recently in Southern Africa? Our Southern Africa Regional Secretariat put together a short list of the most important new from the region: Electricity: Cabinet has approved the Integrated Resource Plan (IPR), formulated under the Electricity Regulation Act, and it will guide government on how it can meet the country’s electricity demands. see: http://www.buanews.gov.za [...]
11 Nov 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News, REEEP
Our colleague Dr Doug Banks, engineer, scientist, REEEP project coordinator, and a remarkable figure in the South African renewable energy community, died in 2008. The Doug Banks Renewable Energy Vision Trust (DBREV Trust) was formed later that year as friends and colleagues set about creating a living memorial to perpetuate his passion and vision through [...]
In November 2006, the UK Foreign Ministry offset their 2004 air travel emissions via CERs from a 10MW South African wind farm developed by Genesis Eco-Energy. Now more than two years later, Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a joint venture deal for the development of 500MW of wind power in South Africa. Mainstream’s founders are [...]